I'd love to honore de balzac

may i tickle de balzac

Thank you for this lovely documentary. 🇫🇷

Thank you for posting this.

Honore' de Balzac, an adventure for sure. The will and power, "The will consumes power and destroys us." Capital moves upward and flows downward. The concern of money, marriage. What has changed? He was an incredible writer of realism. Thank you for this documentary.

O la la, c'est fantastique, j'aime H. De Balzac. Merci beaucoup! 💯💯💯💯🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️💝🤩😍😘💖🙏👋👋👋👋✨💫🤗🤔

A totally absorbing and entertaining portrayal of one of the world’s undeniable literary geniuses. Still, he was for the most part it seems, miserable. And so while eliciting a deep regard for Balzac’s untenable intellect and literary contributions to the world, this documentary also makes me glad to just be myself, unencumbered by genius and ambition. As musician Tiny Tim sang, “Aren’t You Glad To Be You?!” Indeed, I am, thou great philosopher, Mr. Tim, indeed I am! 😄

Wow! such an outstanding documentary film, combined with so many classical pieces, I love all forms of arts👍☺️

here after Elon Musk's Tweet

Thank you for an interesting & informative documentary - I soon used the fast forward option to escape that woman’s most irritating manner of speaking!

That orange blouse woman's voice is so very annoying!!!!!!

C'est fantastique. Merci beaucoup!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jaqWfdFi0Mm1pYk.html The sound coming out of that woman, my god.

Great documentary!

Listen at 1.25 speed. You’re welcome

So disturbing hearing the teller deforming his name every 2 minutes.. It's not fcking Ball-zeck, it's BAL-ZAC ...

Interesting, but ruined for me by the narrator's insistence on calling Honore de Balzac by the rather less dignified Honore de Ball zack. The "a" is supposed to be short, a in "hat"!!! He tried to get the pronunciation right in other names, so why not this one? I had to switch off. I will content myself with a French copy of Mr Ballsack's "Contes Drolatiques", which I originally encountered in English translation.

Riveting and informative 😊

Happy Summer holidays of love for reading friends, exploring some more the ... human comedy and the fine arts of saving feeling on paper and sharing them with readers, every writer had this input, sharing his own feelings with the audience because still so worthy, have fun slow down and give time a better use friends

Everyone: Honorè Balsac Narrator: Honnoy Ball Sack

I'm a lover of Zola so I had to start reading Balzac. I'm about 3 books into La Comedie Humaine.

Ah, Honore lived in a Garret. Makes sense if you read The Magic Skin. The description of a Garret made me feel like I lived there.

One of the Best Documentaries i have seen lately..

God bless Honore! He fell in love!

I miss the other speaker (Hugo, Zola). He could pronounce the french names very well.

Interesting documentary, but please, he was not "Ball-Jack" but Balzac - why not using the French pronunciation?

Clips are from a movie version of War and Peace?

Jesuschrist...this man says "Ballsack" in such a peaceful manner it fucking irritates me to the point of murderous anger. Beautiful documentary, nonetheless.

Poor subtitles and French pronunciation but otherwise good introduction to the author. (from Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉

Fabulous documentary apart from the irratating and obviously put on posh accent of Dr. Hannoosh! She must have spent a fortune on elocutionary classes.

Director... "So Keith, you're sure you're ok with pronouncing French words and names ?" Keith..... "Of course, I've studied every episode of Allo Allo and have had speach lessons from Dr. Hanoosh. Director... "oh shit"

...how utterly wooden the presenter is

The poor presenter of this documentary! Anyone who has a smattering of French language cannot fail to constantly flinch at his pronunciation. Did the presenter accept this commission out of desperation? Was he unaware of his terrible accent? Apart from that, the documentary is good, well compiled and illustrated and draws on well informed (and more linguistically capable) experts in the field particularly Graham Robb who has written a weighty biography of Balzac. So all in all, I am thankful to have discovered this (though still flinching at the end!)

The footage of the guy drinking around 26:00 is from the Soviet film of War and Peace.

This is not the Balzac I felt when I read him. And as for the affectations of the voice of Michele Hannoosh..ridiculous.(((

so no one's gonna talk about that his name is literally honore the balzac . ok

Ball Zac, turned it off immediately after hearing that.

Good doc. One observation: Ewelina Hańska was not Ukrainian. She was Polish. As was her husband Wacław Hański. In those times Poland extended to some Ukrainian terrains. Nevertheless in those times Poland was under partitions. Hański's estate was in the region occupied by Russia. So - some of Ukrainian territory had been taken by Poles, which - in its turn was taken by Russians. Complicated. I know.

Dear editor of this docu. Please spare the poor viewers, us, from Dr Michele Hannoosh. It is not possible to concentrate on the content of what she wants to say because of her very annoying pitch of voice and the posh, arrogant usage of English language. We understand that she has a degree in literature but let"s just stick to the genre of a docu and not pretend to give a lecture to academic students. Thank you.

BALLSACK !

Honor De Ballsack. - phonetically

The way he pronounces the name "Honoré de Balzac" is more than ridiculous. How can you make a documentary about the greates writer of all times without making sure how his name is being spoken properly?

Wrinkly , Sweaty Balsack

Im here cus of a meme...

It is Balzac not Bolzac - the presenter cannot pronounce one single French word and this shows a lack of respect - very annoying and very ignorant - there are french teachers even in London, my goodness.

Very pedestrian docu.

balzac lol

Now I know why I hate reading the realists... thank you.