BDHs speak French!

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REDNAX

Monday, October 24, 2005 10:43 AM

The following is French site for "Serenity : L'ultime Rebellion"
http://www.commeaucinema.com/news.php3?nominfos=35373

It includes links the the French Poster and the French (dubbed) trailer. This seems longer than any of the English-language trailers I've seen.

There's a user rating there which puts it at ***/**** after 16 votes - I'm sure us browncoats can bump that up a bit!

IAMZOE

Monday, October 24, 2005 11:19 AM

I saw the review for Serenity in 'Premiere', a French cinema review magazine which is cited on this website. It was interesting to read a different perspective, especially as I think a lot of the appeal of Joss Whedon's work is in the writing and dialogue, and I had wondered how that would work when the film was dubbed or subtitled. Also whether that would mean other plot points would be considered more important.

Premiere's review was good - three stars out of four. To compare, they also gave Polanski's Oliver Twist and Wallace & Gromit three stars that month, while four-star films were L'Enfant(French, by the people who did Rosetta) and Rize (that dance documentary).

The review said basically that it was faithful to the TV series, and reminiscent of the ideas of the original Star Wars (and better than the recent ones). Of plot points (minor spoilers!) it picked up on the Chinese - does anyone know how that worked with dubbing / subtitling? - , that line of Kaylee's 'ou on parle de vibromasseurs' and the 'explosions'.

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, October 24, 2005 1:32 PM

good news, let's hope it gets good numbers in France

it did very well in the UK, Portugal, Russia and Australia
can the rest of Europe make up those numbers ?

Spanish news on Serenity
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/58675/0/serenity/whedon/firefly/
http://www.abc.es/abc/pg051021/prensa/noticias/Cultura/Cultura/200510/
21/NAC-CUL-117.asp

Firefly talk from Hamburg Germany
http://www.cinefacts.de/kino/archiv/news.php?newsid=5892
http://www.sf-radio.net/webbeat/kino/meldung,bsfradioverlostkartenfuri
serenityiscreeninginhamburgb,1,9927,00.php

Serenity in Italy
http://televisione.leonardo.it/news/index.php?nid=2006113
http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/notizie/6226/

LUCKYSPENCER7

Monday, October 24, 2005 2:14 PM

we have a group of browncoats here in Montreal and one of our crew went to see it once in French with some friends of hers. she said that it wasn't too bad (she'd seen it in English a few times before). then again, Quebec French and France French are not entirely the same thing.

me, just the tagline "L'ultime rebellion" makes me cringe. so corny.

MSCKAREN

Monday, October 24, 2005 3:41 PM

Well, it took almost an hour to update and fiddle with my laptop to get to see the trailer but I thoroughly enjoyed it! :-)

The trailer is longer and seems to feature more of the Operative which I think is a good thing. Also, may be highlighting a better known actor for the French Market...?

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REDNAX

Monday, October 24, 2005 4:26 PM

The are 2 versions of the French trailer here, along with inteviews with Nathan & Summer (over-dubbed in French).
http://www.allocine.fr/film/video_gen_cfilm=57920.html

Does anyone else think Wash's dubbing artist sounds like a woman?

BLUESUNWORSHIPPER

Monday, October 24, 2005 8:21 PM

I thought the same thing, that Wash sounded like a woman, and that Mal sounded like he had a deeper voice than Jayne. Which, we all know, is just plain crazy-talk.

- T

:)

DOCTORPAYNE13

Monday, October 24, 2005 9:10 PM

I'm living in Quebec City right now, studying French at U Laval, so I had to watch Serenity on opening night in French (I found an english theatre closer to campus after, of course, so I was able to see it in its full glory there later). The Quebec version might have been different from the France version, but I liked it alot. In fact, I actually might have enjoyed it a bit more in French. I don't know why, the actors that they used for dubbing weren't great or anything... I guess I just liked it a bit more because it was the first new Joss thing I had seen in over a year. One thing I noticed is that there was alot more laughter in the french theatre than in the english one. I guess Joss' humour translates well into any language.

DOCTORPAYNE13

Monday, October 24, 2005 9:12 PM

Oh dude, if you think Wash sounds bad, you should hear the voice they used for the Rock in french version of Doom. I seriously think it was a 10 year old girl.

BELASERA

Monday, October 24, 2005 11:13 PM

I just went poking around the Italian site, kinda cute, it's set up to look Like Mr. U's consoles, but it inexplicably features fooftage from the children's show Max and Ruby on one of them. I just stared at it for like, 4 minutes straight.
But good to hear about the positive French review, you should post that at Whedonesque, where word on the street is France pumped out alot of bad reviews.
Italian Serenity site- http://www.serenity-ilfilm.it/

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