We love Rone. Between his chilling, one-shot performance for “Quitter La Ville” in an empty French airport terminal, to his “Acid Reflux” video about eating radioactive sushi and hallucinating around Tokyo, it’s pretty loud and clear that he’s unabashed cinephile. His videos are films in of themselves, and if you aren’t familiar with him, I highly recommend going on the audiovisual journey. In fact, his impressive cinematic prowess came up the other day when we were all sitting around the office debating the finer points of French cinema (casual), so we decided to hit him up and see what his favorite French films were. He is, after all, the French-iest.

But even though English is his second or eleventh language, Rone speak real-pretty like. In fact, I was so floored at his majestic writing skills that I nearly stopped writing myself and reverted to by backup career: heart surgeon. Each video description is a little literary gift from god, a Nabokov-esque poem mixed with the flooring beauty of a million double rainbows. Rone, it seems, is much better writer than me and miles more adept at describing the nuances of French cinema. It’s actually pretty funny.

Initially, I was  just going to pretend I’m smart enough to understand the shimmering, multifaceted intellectualism of Rone’s comments … but since I’m a  dumb American and I need to feel secure, I also included an American interpretation of each film so the full gravity of how much smarter he is than you can really sink in.

So, without further adieu, here are Rone’s Top 5 favorite French films, according to both him and your idiot countrymen.