Je t'aime John Wayne

I can't write any of the elegant words the guy before me did, however it seem like far too long since I saw this.

It cracked me up when I saw it, and not in the laugh at it because I got the references/jokes etc (a la arty types watching foreign/indy films).

It's such a shame that it's now an advert, this should be showcased somewhere!

I am certain that Kriss must have been involved in the writing, is the bloke with the beard sleeping in the cinema credited? write in and tell us cowboy.

I have no issues with the film, and see no need to be critical. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I am surprised that Kriss who is so young has been able to become exposed to so much idiomatic french film-making, there is hardly any shown nowadays on TV. I used to see a lot of Japanese and french film, as well as German TV series (remember derrick?) in the late 70's early 80's. It just does not seem to happen at all, with so much cheap TV time to fill. I even used to see polish and iranian film on the do#mestic channels.

I saw this as a short accompanying another film, and it turned out to be a real treat. Maybe part of the charm was the surprise element (I hadn't realised there was a short), but this shows real promise. It's a stylish, 5 minute homage. A romp through the cliches of French cinema, as seen through the eyes of a cocksure London chancer. He's so convinced he's Jean-Paul Belmondo in Godard's 1960 classic, A bout de Souffle, that even his mum can't get any sense out of him any more. Suffice to say he charms, he poses, and he eventually gets the girl - a dead ringer for Jean Seberg. Nicely written and played, with some real laughs. But it won't make much sense unless you've seen Godard's film.

An utterly wonderful short film showing a day in the life of a Jean Paul Belmondo wannabe, living his life as if the French New Wave had never crashed on the shore of film history. For our hero lives in London, and as such, the whole piece is exquisitely filmed in black and white as a tongue in cheek take on French cinema of the 1950s/1960s, even managing to make many of the scenes and even sets appear to correspond to Breathless.

But that's not all, the quick editing and sublime attention to detail makes this a must see for fans of short spoof films and new wavers alike. Clever, inventive and, so so British, if it wasn't so French.

Usually when I see that there is a short film in front of a main feature, this is a coded message for 'have a five minute nap'.

What a pleasant surprise. I saw this in front of 'Together' (brilliant) at the G.F.T, and it gave me a real craving for Godard's movies and for that arrogant, self-conscious charm Belmondo portrays so effortlessly.

Kris Marshall was tremendous and did a lot with his small part; one prime example is how pleased he is with himself as he shaves and smokes a lucky strike at the same time. Very Belmondo.

The G.F.T is showing 'Bande a' Part' this month and I recommend that if you liked 'Je t'aime...', you catch that to see where, in part, the inspiration for 'Je t'aime John Wayne' came from.