my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » The Afterlife   » "JET LAG" DVD

Author Topic: "JET LAG" DVD Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 02-02-2004 11:08 PM                        What a joy it is to watch a foreign film in it's original language on DVD and if one also chooses to watch the alternate English version, that is also possible and I did exactly that with "JET LAG" ("De'calage Honaire"). I saw the bitter sweet comedy last night at home and thoroughly enjoyed it so much I watched it again in English. The English version was also good because both of the film's stars, Academy Award winner, Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno had made several films in that language and did their own dubbing. The story is about two travelers who meets at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris and gets stranded for the night because of a short airport transit strike. Rose played by Binouche is a beauty technician and Felix played by Reno is a former gourmet chef and now sells mass produced frozen foods and hates it . Rose is flying to Acapulco to get away from her alcoholic boyfriend and Felix is on his way to Munich to attend the funeral of his former girlfriend's grandmother. Both Rose and Felix wind up sharing a hotel room together and spend the night talking and soon find themselves disliking each other at first. This mutual dislike for each other does not last very long and a touching relationship develops between the two in the end. I find a love story like this possible because I believe a sensitive and beautiful woman like Rose can fall in love with a pessimistic and gruff looking man like Felix and find mutual compatibility in each other. -Claude [ 02-03-2004, 02:42 AM: Message edited by: Claude S. Ayakawa ]  |  IP: Logged Gilbert Travin Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Villeurbanne / France Registered: Jan 2004 posted 02-03-2004 08:32 AM                        Hello Claude ; If you like J. Binoche, you can watch "Le Hussard sur le toit" directed by J.P. Rappeneau : in south of France, in a time of war and disease, a young italian officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband... The pictures are magnificient and actors great ! The english title : "The Horseman on the Roof" (1995) . An other french director, Luc Besson, make directly english version of his films with actors that speak english (of course ! ) and that dubbe themselves for the french version. ("Le grand bleu" and so on ...)  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 02-04-2004 12:50 PM                        Thanks Gilbert I just checked and "LE HUSSARD SUR LE TOIT" is available on DVD here in the United States. It was released last June on DVD by Miramax and I will see if I can find it. Juliette Binoche is indeed a very beautiful woman and I have always admired this actress since I first saw her Academy Award winning performance in "AN ENGLISH PATIENT". I also enjoyed her performance in "CHOCOLAT". -Claude  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.