Abbas, a French teacher, has fled war in the Central African Republic in order build a new life in France. While waiting to be granted refugee status, Abbas daily life takes shape: his children go to school and he works in market where he encounters Carole, who is moved by the courage of this man still haunted by the ghosts of his past.But if asylum is rejected, what will become of Abbas and his uprooted family? And what will happen to Carole, deprived of the home that she’d believed she had rebuilt with them?
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Explore France through Film
Take a cinematic tour of France with these classic and contemporary films that were made in various French regions. These contemporary and classic films will transport you far and wide, from Martinique to Brittany and Marseille to Guadeloupe. Explore the map to find films that feature different regions of France and French territories. View a full list of film recommendations below
L’Or des Mers (1932) | Brittany
An outcasted fisherman living in a working-class town finds a treasure chest that everyone assumes is gold.
Amélie (2001) | Paris
A comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making.
Chocolat (2000) | Burgundy
A romantic comedy about a young ds mother who moves to the fictional French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie.
The Hundred Foot Journey (2014) | Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet story, this film chronicles a battle of two restaurants in a village one by an Indian family and the other, a lofty Michelin–starred restaurant.
A Good Year (2006) | Luberon
A failed London banker inherits his uncle’s vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Love Actually (2003) | Marseille
A Christmas-themed romantic comedy in which various people fall in and out of love in interlocking stories.
Jacquot de Nantes (1993) | Nantes
The portrait of filmmaker Jacques Demy follows his formative years in 1940s.
L’Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974) | Lyon
A French police inspector tells a quiet man that his son is a killer.
De Rouille et d’Os (2012) | Cannes
Ali, a struggling boxer and single father, develops a relationship with Stéphanie, a woman who had both legs amputated following an accident.
To Catch a Thief (1955) | Nice
Starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, this film tells the story of a notorious retired burglar who goes on a mission to clear his name after a series of jewel robberies is committed in his style.
The Boat (1981) | La Rochelle
A German war movie in which a submarine patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, manned by a crew that must contend with tense conflicts and long stretches of confined boredom.
Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (2008) | Bergues
A French postman is assigned to work in Northern France instead of the coveted Cote d’Azur, and must handle his wife’s depressive state as well as an unfamiliar language and culture.
Saving Private Ryan (1988) | Calvados
A powerful dramatized re-creation of WWII’s D-day invasion and its immediate aftermath.
Séraphine (2008) | Senlis
A historical dramatization of legendary painter and outsider artist Séraphine “de Senlis” Louis toiling as a maidservant in the homes of the bourgeoisie.
Bon Voyage (2003) | Bordeaux
In June 1940, an escaped prisoner follows his former lover on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Paris.
Plaire, aimer et courir vite (2018) | Rennes
Arthur a twenty-year old student has a summer affair with Jacques, a writer living in Paris with his young son.
Les Plages d’Agnès (2008) | Hérault
An inside look into French filmmaker Agnes Varda’s life through a combination of photographs, recreations and scenes from her films as she revisits French locales that played important roles in her life.
La Baie des Anges (1963) | Côte d’Azur
A young bank employee takes up a recent interest in gambling and falls in love with a divorcée in the trenches of her gambling addiction.
La règle du Jeu (1939) | Aubigny-sur-Nère
This film shows a bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II when the rich and their impoverished servants meet up at a French chateau for a party.
La cuisine au beurre (1963) | Martigues
Ferdinand returns to his hometown in London during his stay at the restaurant. Christine remarried to a Norman chef who runs Ferdinand’s restaurant.
La Rue Case-Nègres (1983) | Martinique
This film is a portrait of small-town native life under French colonial rule in Martinique from the perspective of a bright boy learning to balance the value of his roots with the education opportunities in the city of Fort-de-France.
La Sirène du Mississippi (1969) | La Réunion Island
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
Siméon (1992) | Guadeloupe
The ghost of a music teacher encourages a young mechanic to start a career in music. [ . . . ]
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In the footsteps of Laetitia Dosch
Actress Laetitia Dosch makes an appointment with Karine Vasarino for a night stroll in Lausanne. The Franco-Swiss actress lived in the Vaudois capital between 2003 and 2008.
Sur les pas d’une actrice aux multiples facettes. Sur scène, elle propose des spectacles qui expérimentent les limites. Chauffeuse de salle, animale, elle tourne actuellement avec “Hate”, pièce dans laquelle elle joue nue avec un cheval.Personnalité atypique, l’étiquette de dingue de service lui a longtemps collé à la peau. Mais depuis sa nomination aux César pour son rôle dans “Jeune femme” (Caméra d’or à Cannes en 2017), Laetitia Dosch découvre le côté paillettes et glamour de son métier.Elle sera prochainement dans “Nos batailles” avec Romain Duris. Mais la belle rousse qui se trouvait moche à l’adolescence ne se considère pas comme une star.Laetitia Dosch donne rendez-vous à Karine Vasarino pour une balade nocturne à Lausanne. L’actrice franco-suisse a vécu dans la capitale vaudoise entre 2003 et 2008.
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Laetitia Dosch : la belle et la bête
It may be a story of skin, porous membrane between oneself and the world. The skin that Laetitia Dosch has diaphanous, like most redheads, but that’s not the reason why this delicate, almost transparent envelope seems to work as a sensor. Rather a matter of sensitivity, obviously. On this evening of June, the young woman vibrates with all her being , under the big pines of the Domaine d’O, in Montpellier, at the exit of the representation of Hate : a creation of which she signs the text and the staging, in which she plays, and which, after Lausanne and Montpellier, arrives at Nanterre, where it is not necessary to miss it .
The show is in his image: a total singularity. The beautiful, out of a painting Botticelli, plays, skin against leather, with the beast. In this case a horse named Corazon (“heart”, in Spanish), with a gray trout dress. They are both naked, which is more noticeable at home than at home. It would seem that Laetitia Dosch does not do anything like another, from the beginning.
“I’ve always been the weird of the family,” she says. Its heterogeneous environment and Catholic ultratraditionnel 8 th arrondissement of Paris. “At the same time, my family was strange, in its way, we lived with my grandparents, uncles and aunts, and in the middle of animals, alive or dead. At home there were two parallel worlds: the adult ones, and the animals and me. But it’s good that I have fallen in the ” cathos ” , like that, I could not reproduce any scheme, “she says with this light humor, falsely naive, which characterizes it.
Squeaky Spirit
It is indeed in her private Catholic high school, however, that she discovers the theater, which saves her from a lonely and mute adolescence. And it is in the theater that she plunges, with lost body, she who appears today as one of the muses of the young French auteur cinema. With an eclecticism, a curiosity, an originality that make him make the difference between very different forms, which nevertheless still marks his identity.
She played Shakespeare alongside Eric Ruf, the boss of the Comédie-Française, or under the direction of the director Mélanie Leray, while ferreting into the much more experimental and performative world of choreographers Marco Berrettini and La Ribot. And she wrote her first show, Laetitia makes a fart … , parody of stand-up, where she plays a humorist a little weak, who makes jokes about the old, the Jews and the Blacks. Laetitia Dosch does not mind having a squeaky mind. [ . . . ]
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Review: Strong Performances Anchor ‘The Apparition’
“The Apparition” sounds like the title of a horror movie, and this is not a case where the United States distributors of this French film have goosed up the original language title, which was, yes, “L’apparition.” There are several points in the movie during which the viewer can see the story line veer into genre territory, as when some of the characters, a disparate group convened for an investigation, discuss the possibility of working with an exorcist.
But the movie, directed by Xavier Giannoli, in fact aims for tragedy (which it nearly achieves) and enigmatic spirituality (and here’s where there’s a problem). Vincent Lindon plays Jacques, a journalist whose best friend and colleague is killed, practically right next to him, in the Middle East. At home nursing a blown-out ear, and PTSD, he is summoned by a Vatican representative. A young woman in rural France, Anna (Galatéa Bellugi) has seen a vision of the Virgin Mary, and is being celebrated by locals — and now, tourists on pilgrimages — as a potential new Bernadette of Lourdes. The church wants an investigation, to which the local priest sheltering Anna has strident objections.
Mr. Lindon, who carries his powerful masculinity with canny reserve, is superb as a man inquiring into a faith he had previously thought had nothing to do with him. But Ms. Bellugi is a real find; she inhabits her character, who, even as she hides her secrets, is so genuinely beatific that you can hear it in her breathing. Which makes it even more of a shame that the movie, which for two hours is an absorbing, detailed procedural, becomes so willfully diffuse in its final 20 minutes.
Pas De Merde 