Quand Nous Nous Sommes Ennuyés...

Guh, French Final of much doom...
Featuring snippits of these lovely songs.
A Taste of Honey - The Dish Soundtrack
Skylight - Overseer
Making a Killing - Phantom Planet
Lua - Bright Eyes

This movie was our French IV final project. Hence all the people speaking french. I mispelled the word "ennuyé" in the opening titles, which was dumb. For those of you who do not speak french, the basic plot line is that these four girls are meeting up at a cafe, and talking about what it was like when they went to school, with emphasis on this one day when they were really bored. It flashes back and forth between the scenes at the cafe (where we had to talk not only about going to school, but ordering food) and to the school days themselves where we were playing pranks to make school more interesting. Interspersed are random tidbits about french culture - the food, the metro system and their schooling system.

I got the most awesome prank of setting up the books like dominos in the school library. Brill...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• french
• final
• project

[sexinicknick]

it aitn holy family is it

[BetsyBooBetsy]

It's a Sisters of Mercy school... *shrugs*

[sexinicknick]

jus asking like cuz in london we have da same uniform as you lool

[BetsyBooBetsy]

Lol! That's strange! :D

[sexinicknick]

wot school u go?

[BetsyBooBetsy]

Umm... I don't know you, so I'm not going to tell you flat out what school I go to... I'm from California. *shrugs*

[5waterdude]

Jouez poliment, monsieur...

[MsMatthewjames]

nah ur just a fukhed!!! xoxo

[baracine]

I could also teach you proper English. Your sentence would be better understood with a comma in the right place and without that dangling participle:

"After reading your comment, I have to say that in English you're what's known as a fuckhead."

Now, doesn't that convey your meaning better?

[MsMatthewjames]

after reading your comments in the english language your known as a fuckhead! :)

[baracine]

This film exposes a severe gap in US education where French is taught by people whose mother toungue it is NOT. It reminds me of Peggy Hill in "King of the Hill" who has the audacity to teach Spanish when she doesn't even understand the language.

[baracine]

Well, when they can't even get the title right, something is very wrong. Also, when learning any language, even you own, you have to have something to say, which is clearly not the case here. The comedic elements come from the actors mimicking surprise at the off-voice (badly spoken as it is) which is the only thing that actually makes sense in this film. And the actors couldn't be understood anywhere in the world, as I said.

[gorila67]

tres bien madame au monsier parlez-vous francais moi parler francais je est espangol mais je etudie francais

[lilbabe712002]

oh get off your high horse frenchie its just some high schoolers doing a project its not going to be perfect

[baracine]

This is what happens when people learn French while being totally cut off from examples and models of actual French culture. You could not be understood anywhere in the world where French is spoken. And the title should be: "Quand nous nous sommes ennuyées". The Gong prize goes to the librarian's "Mon Dooo, less lee-vray!" Close runner-up: "Say feh-nal!"

[baracine]

Les mots sont français mais votre intonation est anglaise et presque incompréhensible pour un francophone, sauf une personne comme moi qui vit entouré d'anglais. Il faut travailler votre accent tonique, écouter des chansons françaises et voir des films français.