Johnny Depp as Jean Luc Godard
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Mark Kermode|13:05 UK time, Sunday, 30 May 2010
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Comment number 1.
At 13:47 30th May 2010, full metal jackson wrote:french poetry? what a waste of time.
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At 13:47 30th May 2010, Sean wrote:My goodness, haven't we seen this skit before, Dr. K?
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At 17:39 30th May 2010, eisen90 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 19:24 30th May 2010, RussiansEatBambi66 wrote:You know I think Dr.K is falling in love with Cannes again!
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At 19:31 30th May 2010, echobase wrote:Oh dear,
the old doctor has lost it!
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At 00:28 31st May 2010, Amber_ wrote:Not French enough. It's insulting, there's not a snail or a baguette in sight through that entire video. At the VERY LEAST you could have added a beret and grown one of those little mustaches.
Nope, not convinced.
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At 01:13 31st May 2010, SheffTim wrote:Despite the vitriol directed against the PoC trilogy (the first was OK, as Hollywood fare goes; two and three were utter plotless messes) I appreciated Depp's reinvention of an archetype Pirate. Before that the archetype was Robert Newton ("Arr, Jim lad").
Plus ça change? That's okay Mark, we'll change our perception of the politics of film.
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At 01:15 31st May 2010, Joel_Cooney wrote:Jings, I know he is technically on holiday but instead of posting this (or even, as well as) could there not have been a few words about the passing of Dennis Hopper?
Maybe a future blog will address it...
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At 03:49 31st May 2010, eisenstein_a_gogo wrote:More like Jean-Luc Picard.
engagez-vous!
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At 06:59 31st May 2010, Vincent Kane wrote:Never mind the cheesy Godard quip, nothing insults the French more than a Rosbif butchering their language. A fine tradition, well worth keeping.
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At 08:26 31st May 2010, TheZodiac wrote:Complain about this comment (Comment number 11)
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At 08:28 31st May 2010, TheZodiac wrote:I feel a cameo in POC4 coming on
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At 20:32 31st May 2010, krn wrote:oh christ mark you just failed again.
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At 20:44 31st May 2010, AngelFootballWiz wrote:Qui.....
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At 16:41 1st Jun 2010, aoife coyle wrote:Je ne comprends pas, je suis Anglais way hey!!
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At 07:30 14th Mar 2011, U14813085 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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