The 19th French Film Festival

I can remember very well, some fifteen years ago maybe, when I first got exposed to French films. I was in high school, the MRT was still new back then and I had just discovered the joys of commuting. I remember reading about the film festival through the newspapers, the Internet was a thing of the future and there was only Greenbelt 1. Like a wild stranger, the French films I knew were foreign, had crazy plots, well, nudity was a given, and incredibly sexy. It was the gateway that opened my love for European films, which led me to follow some Swedish films since, a little bit of the Italian ones. I wouldn't call myself an expert but I'd think that my youth became more interesting when it got muddled by European cinema, so much so that I remember them more than any Tagalog movie from the 1990s.

Swimming Pool | 2003 {not very European but set in the south of France and one of the disturbing ones}

Now that Ambafrance Manille has released the lineup of movies they're showing at the film festival this year, I am actually thinking of just watching all the films all day. I am especially intrigued and biased over French romcoms, a genre I have quite a couple of favorites.