5 of the Top French Romance Films

Amelie

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her.

Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter)

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

Cyrano de Bergerac

A dashing officer of the guard and romantic poet, Cyrano de Bergerac falls in love with his cousin Roxane without her knowing. His one fault in his life, he feels, is his large nose and although it may have been a forming influence in his rapier-sharp wit, he believes that Roxane will reject him. He resorts to writing letters to her on behalf of one of his cadets, Christian, who is also in love with Roxane but just doesn't know how to tell her. She falls for the poetic charm of the letters but believes that they were written by Christian.

Hors De Prix (Priceless)

On the Riviera with her elderly provider to celebrate her birthday, Irene slips down to the hotel bar when he falls asleep on her. She mistakes barman Jean for a well-healed guest and he encourages the deceit by taking her up to the Royal Suite for the night. A year later the same thing happens but this time her lover finds out and disowns her. Now knowing Jean is indeed a barman of little means doesn't stop her from continuing to live in style until his money is gone. He soon finds himself in Irene's business with older and worldly-wise Madeleine, and though Irene also takes up with a new paramour the two of them keep in increasingly close touch.

Jeux d'enfants (Love Me if  You Dare)

As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.

Grow Up, Nut!

1. Just because someone smiles at you on the street, doesn't necessarily mean they like you. It could just be that they're trying to be polite or daydreaming or something.

2. Standing for ages in the centre of a crowded convenience store and gaping at a packet of grated coconut never got anybody anywhere. Yes. It is coconut.  And No! Time isn't on your side.

3. Never try 'dusting' clothes outside a window especially when you're born with butter fingers and live on the 2nd floor of a building. Unless of course...you want people to think it's raining socks and underwear.

4. What's the point in trying to communicate in English with a pigeon who's got a brain half the size of yours? You're no Dr. Doolittle.

5. You should probably forget about that crush you had on some boy in kindergarten. It isn't likely that he remembers your name from back then, when he couldn't even spell his own! Get over him already!

6. Using mom's expired make-up isn't a better substitute for the newer stuff. All of it will just ruin your skin.

7. Cursing people behind their backs and in your diaries will never help get the message across to them. You may as well not exist to them in the first place.

8. Eating excess food won't make you as strong...as much as it makes you fat.

9. Telling small white lies to people who love you dearly (not me) isn't something to be proud of...just expect to lose their trust.

10. Stop acting sweet and dumb. It gets on my nerves!

Somewhere in Time (1980)

A beautifully filmed romantic science fiction movie about a playwright who becomes smitten by a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel. Through self-hypnosis, he travels back in time to the year 1912 to find love with actress Elise McKenna.

Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeves

In May 1972, college theater student Richard Collier is celebrating the debut of a play he has written when he is approached by an elderly woman who places a pocket watch in his hand and pleads "come back to me".

Eight years later, Richard is a successful playwright living in Chicago, but has recently broken up with his girlfriend and is struggling with writer's block. Feeling stressed from writing his play, he decides to take a break and travels out of town to a hotel. While looking at a display in the hotel's museum, Richard becomes enthralled by a photograph of a beautiful woman. He searches for any clues that could lead to her and finds out that she was the late successful actress, Elise McKenna. He hypnotizes himself in his own hotel room and gets transferred to the year 1912 where he encounters her as well as her very possessive manager, William. Elise and Richard fall deeply in love despite William's numerous efforts to put an end to their romance. Just as things begin working out for the two, Richard sees a coin from his real present which pulls him out of his hypnotically-induced time trip. Richard later dies from shock, starvation as well as a broken heart and is reunited with the young Elise in the after life.

Top 5 Tim Burton-Johnny Depp Collaborations

1. Dark Shadows

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection from a witch.

2. Corpse Bride

When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.

3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

4. Sleepy Hollow

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.

5. Alice in Wonderland

19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.

Back Home...At Last!

My Artwork

This painting was inspired by Stephen King's novel 'Bag Of Bones'(Maine).

Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans' isolated summer home. He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath -- held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?

Based on Christopher Pike's book 'Sati' (Arizona)

I once knew this girl who thought she was God. She didn't give sight to the blind or raise the dead. She didn't even teach anything, not really, and she never told me anything I probably didn't already know.

On the other hand, she didn't expect to be worshipped, nor did she ask for money. Given her high opinion of herself, some might call that a miracle.

I don't know, maybe she was God. Her name was Sati and she had blonde hair and blue eyes.

For all who meet her, Sati will change everything. Sati may change everything for you.

My Pet Pigeon