Guess the Movie

[Opsa]

Holy carp- she's drop-dead gorgeous and I can't place her to save my life. She does look familiar.

I love her bedroom. I want one just like it.

So we've got elegant people at a party in a Victorian mansion in the 1960's.

[Swatopluk]

No idea. I do not know that film nor do I recognize that person.
Should it be a French (or Italian) movie, the chances of me knowing it would be negligible anyway. I'd be more likely to recognize something East Asian actually than anything from the "roman" parts of Europe.

[Griffin NoName]

Sorry Swato, in that case I cannot help you. It is French (or Italian).

Let's see if homing in on the architecture and landscape of this postwar European film helps anyone else. Although really trying to pin it down goes against the whole purpose of the film which some argue is the high point of this particular genre and others self-indulgent pretentiousness. For the English, Steptoe and Son may help.

[goat starer]

Hmmmmm....

Steptoe and Son

therefore

hercules

hence

something or other

and i might get it

if I were not so

generally drunk

[Griffin NoName]

I don't know about Hercules, but Harold's dreams come into it. Though I am willing to admit this would probably be a googlewack with all the correct words !  So hard remembering.

[Swatopluk]

Something nouvelle vague?

[beagle]

So hard remembering.

You could always have a cup of tea and a madeleine.

As for Harold's dreams of a life without the old boy do you have any idea how many French 60s films have the words "vie" or "sans" in them? Even if they do all have the same plot of a woman running off to join a brothel. What were those directors on?

[Swatopluk]

Alain, Resnais,   L'Année dernière à Marienbad?

I looked up Nouvelle Vague in the (printed) encyclopedia and the garden setting was the picture accompnying the topic.

[Griffin NoName]

Hurrah for Swato; I knew the gardens would give it away.

Harold takes one of his women to see this film, Albert comments:
"You're always trying to make out how clever and sophisticated you are with the birds. I mean look at that lah-di-dah film you took that poor girl from the fish shop to see last week, that what-was-it? - Last Year In Miriambad, gawd strewth!"

[Swatopluk]

Ok, that should be an easy one:


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[Opsa]

Sez you!

Um, they look like refugees in a boat.

[Griffin NoName]

Five boys and a man in a boat?

Or it could be Life of Pi I suppose if the man is a tiger in disguise.

[Swatopluk]

Jumping the shark, lil girl? I should have taken more marine biology classes.

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9349/pdvd034px1.png

[Opsa]

Oh! Is it Whale Rider?

[Swatopluk]

Indeed! Your turn!