what i'm watching: c.r.a.z.y.

We saw "C.R.A.Z.Y." last night, a French Canadian film that has won all kinds of awards. It was excellent.

It's a coming-of-age story, and a family story, funny, sad and profound, and somehow manages to tell an old tale in a very fresh and engaging way. If you haven't seen this, you should.

We have seen so many excellent films Quebecois. It seems like a disproportionate number of good movies come from la belle province.

Comments

  1. Genet15 March 2006 at 19:19

    I agree with you about Québec cinema, although I have yet to see C.R.A.Z.Y.

    What's more, the québécois actually go and see their homegrown films in large numbers unlike anglophone Canadians. Hopefully, that will start to change.

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  2. laura k16 March 2006 at 04:27

    You'll really enjoy this film.

    Hey Genet, how did you get those nice accent marks in your comment? I can't seem to get them to appear correctly, hence my bad spelling in this (and other) posts.

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  3. Genet16 March 2006 at 13:39

    I'm on a Mac and all I have to do is press option+e and then e (or whichever letter) to get this: é.

    option + u, then letter= ü
    option + i, then letter = î
    option + a, then letter = å
    option + `, then letter = è
    option + c = ç

    Hope that helps!

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  4. Ferdzy16 March 2006 at 20:48

    On my PC, I press "Alt" plus some number to get various accented letters and other symbols. Try starting at "Alt 128" and working your way through the "130's".

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  5. laura k17 March 2006 at 04:29

    Thanks Genet and Ferdzy. I was unclear. I know how to type the accent marks. (I ought to - I make my living as a word-processor!) But when I use them, Blogger doesn't accept them, they show up as incoherent nonsense. I was wondering how you avoid that.

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  6. Franc17 March 2006 at 21:26

    Testing accents on Blogger using Windows XP...
    L'école
    Genève
    À la plage

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  7. Franc17 March 2006 at 21:31

    L-girl...I was able to publish the above French words using the built-in language toolbar which switches your entire keyboard to any language of your choice...that was on Windows XP (Is that what you have?) If that's the case, let me know and I'll walk you through setting it up...

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