Americans delight in bashing French movie clichés–the cigarettes! the adultery! the self-conscious seriousness! French films are perhaps an easy target for mockery. Still, I can’t help but laugh at this particularly creative send-up, a bit of one Netflix user’s review of François Ozon’s See the Sea, singled out by the blog A Whine Colored Sea:
Key elements to a french movie – slow as thick snot in January – moral depravity – infidelity – boobs are shown, sometimes crotch – people smoking…
These do not make for essential viewing:
Only recommended if you enjoy activities like sewing your head to the carpet…
Image by Nils Alsleben, licensed under Creative Commons.
