Romantics Anonymous (a.k.a. Les Émotifs Anonymes) is an enchanting, colorful French romantic comedy reminiscent of Amelie. This wonderful little love story introduces us to two painfully shy chocolate lovers: reluctant sales rep and "hermit" chocolatier Angélique (Isabelle Carré) and oddball chocolate mill owner Jean-René (Benoit Poelvoorde). The two chocolate enthusiasts first bond over their shared [...]

I really couldn't describe this better than They Shoot Music does, so here's how they paint the scene for this session with Finnish band French Films . Vienna Sessions Just cross the street once and you are in a completely different world: That's what happens if you leave the hip bars and music venues underneath the tracks of the U6 metro line behind and walk over to Weinhaus Sittl, a traditional Austrian wine tavern. The five Finns of French Films follow us on this short walk and [...]

During the brutal dark winters in Scandanavia all you can do to keep from losing your mind is to focus on how sweet it is to be hanging out on a beach in the sun. This particularly harsh winter in Finland, French Films wrote the soundtrack to an 802s summer movie that I wish existed, where Robert Smith goes on a road trip to LA to try and sign his band, but his car gets stolen on the way and he has to hitch hike with a stray dog that he befriended in Idaho. Each time there's a driving montage, [...]

Fantastiska French Films, som är det bästa jag hört från Finland på senare tid, bekräftades i dag som klara för en spelning på årets upplaga av Hultsfred. Även Bear in Heaven, Frank Turner och Mumford & Sons kommer till festivalen. Hultsfredsfestivalen 2012 äger rum mellan 14-16 Juni och biljetter går att köpa via Eventim. Klara artister sedan tidigare The Cure The Stone Roses The XX Justice Kasabian The Cardigans (spelar Grand Turismo) Marina & The Diamonds Anna Ternheim Garbage James Blake [...]
A new clip from solid Finnish indie act French Films . See them on tour in Europe this month: 01/11 - Eurosonic / Noorderslag Festival, Groningen (NL) 01/12 - Tower Musikclub, Bremen (GER) 01/13 - Eurosonic / Noorderslag Festival, Groningen (NL) 01/14 - Molotow, Hamburg (GER) 01/16 - Ostpol, Dresden (GER) 01/17 - Mascotte, Zürich (CH) 01/18 - Treibhaus, Luzern (CH) 01/19 - Kulturladen Konstanz, Konstanz (GER) 01/20 - Yeah! Club @ Rockhouse, Salzburg (AUS) 01/21 - Carinisaal, [...]

French Films are the real deal. If you haven't given their new album 'Imaginary Future' a listen yet, the time is now. I will continue to buzz about these guys and Imaginary Future will be within hands reach throughout the upcoming year. I wrapped up my best albums of 2011 and Imaginary Future came in at #5. The reason for this is that all 10 songs that are featured work so well together and beg you to listen again and again. The album starts off with a bang with 'This Dead Town', offering a [...]
FRENCH FILMS - You Don´t Know from Teemu Niukkanen on Vimeo . French Films have somehow positioned themselves in an unbelievable position; they write towering, anthemic indie-pop, and somehow pull it off as if they're the hippest, Urban-Outfitters loving, roll-your-own-fags lot from Shoreditch. And they're from Finland. It just defies logic, but it has happened, and the best part is that as radio-friendly as their tunes may be, there's more than enough substance and character there to satisfy the sternest, monocled Guardian critic. Almost like a more grandparent-friendly Yuck. It's the sort [...]
Heycoolkid! 100 Best Songs Of 2011 - (26 - 40) . . 40. Hey Rosetta! - "Bandages" Before saying anything about this song, I fully realize that "Bandages" was not released in 2011. It was though new to me this year and the video they put out over the summer for it really impressed me. [...]
Heycoolkid!'s 100 Best Songs Of 2011 (41-55) . . 55. Middle Brother - "Me, Me, Me" What is there not to love when combining key elements of Delta Spirits, Deer Tick, and Dawes? "Me, Me, Me" is an indie honky-tonk set on fire. Every element from the Jerry Lee Lewis style piano to the Lynard [...]
Welcome to our annual countdown of the 50 best songs of the calendar year. Songs must be from an EP, LP or demo released during 2011, no band may appear twice. Each post contains a lyric from one of the ten songs to follow, a hint and a hook that stuck out clearly in this group. Today, we count down 40-31. 40. Milagres - "Glowing Mouth" We make a lot of jokes about modern independent rock
Emotions are mixed as they always are when leaving one place behind to face something completely unknown but I'm a major advocate for change and more-so pro anti-regrets

Género: Alternative. Martes trece. Si tiramos de estereotipos, mal día para los gallegos que suelen ser supersticiosos. Amable debe ser una excepción ya que hoy es el día que ha elegido para presentarnos su tradicional disco de este 2011 que se acaba. Hoy se cumplen dos semanas desde que lo tengo en el player de mi coche, con el beneplácito de quienes me suelen acompañar, sin intenciones de ser retirado, y eso es mucho desde que me obligo a reseñar diariamente por estas virtualidades escafandristas. Sintomático, veréis. [...]

2011 definitivamente é o ano para as releituras de 1980, e dito isso, French Films é mais uma das lindas obras do gênero que este ano nos trouxe. Assim como os garotos do The New Division , eles foram buscar boas referências nos anos 80 para nos apresentar. Essa retrômania faz parte do zeitgeist (espírito do tempo), e transmite a aura nostálgica da busca de inspiração no passado. Pegue o Joy Division , adicione uma pitada dark do The Cure e um tempero pop dos Beach Boys que assim nasce o French [...]

In this edition: A Thanksgiving edition of Rain from the Cloud, samplers from Friends and Merge Records, news of interest, and videos! Rain from the Cloud: Thanksgiving Edition Alpine - Hands (single) out now on Ivy League Records Notes: This slinky, sultry dance number comes to us from Melbourne. This single from the Aussie sextet is the follow up to the Zurich LP. Watch the video here . [...]
AIR have announced that the followup album to Love 2 from 2009 will be called Le Voyage Dans La Lune and it will be released on February 3rd (6th UK / 7th US). The album which will be their seventh and which translates to The Voyage to the Moon was inspired Georges Méliès' 1902 16-minute French film of the same name which was one of the earliest science fiction films. The film was loosely based on Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells The [...]