a frenchie in vietnam

I really like this person's work: Nadège David.

Nadege is french and currently lives in ho chi minh city and that motherfucker gets to eat pho every day for 50 cents. jealous.

le samourai

I recently came across an article about the french new wave/neo-noir film by jean-pierre melville that basically is a "how to dress like a 1960s lone assassain" which is pretty sweet, but I remembered how much I loveddd the movie when I saw it a couple years ago.

I am lazy and don't feel like typing it, but definitely netflix it and read the wikipedia and I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did.


plus I heart this movie times 10 b/c it has an IRC (interracial couple), which is my favorite. oh wait, actually I love gay IRCs more. also b/c it has 60s clothing, which I think is beautiful and classy. plus, for an action film, it really only has about 3 or 4 "action" scenes. it is quiet, in a good way. but still v. anticipating. plus, how can you not love anything from the 60s that incorporated samurai thinking/spartan living?

j'aime la nouvelle vague!

I love french new wave (plus post-new wave umbrellas of cherbourg, technicolor non-stop musical, galore! also, the pic below). the black-and-white film, the existentialism (which I usually have no patience for -- I'm talking to you, thoreau), the using-your-wife-as-a-lead-actress, all of it.



even though I haven't seen more than 10 nouvelle vague films, I enjoy them. especially when they have subtitles so I don't have to rely on my shitty french. anyways, I totally thought jean-luc godard was dead, but apparently, he's not. and that reminded me. if you are bored on a weekend, do these 2 things:

read Pascal's Pensees (a french philosopher's, literally, "thoughts")


and then rent eric rohmer's Ma Nuit Chez Maude. or, rent the movie, and then read pensees. it's really up to you.

I was going to go into why they are good together, but I don't feel like typing anymore so basically 2 dudes in ma nuit chez maude have a philosophical discussion about a couple things in pascal's pensees, and if you've read it and kinda know what they're talking about, it is really sweet.