Below are the French film and literature titles set for the EDEXCEL A level starting from September 2016.
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AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (PG) 1987 FRANCE MALLE, LOUIS £19.99
Wartime drama set in a wintry catholic boarding school. The film probes the relationship between a young student and his reserved new Jewish classmate, who is hiding from the Germans.
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL FRENCH
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471890017 2017 - £11.99
JANE CRITCHLEY ONLINE LANGUAGE GUIDE TO AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
Contains among many files - Teacher Guide, Amelie and General Film Vocabulary,Lesson Starters, Synopsis, Adjectives, Adjectives Exercises, WJEC Mark Scheme plus much more.
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS ACTIVITÉS DE VOCABULAIRE
VIEWING QUESTIONS FOR AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS VOCABULARY QUESTIONS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH TO HELP PREPARE FOR ASSESSMENTS
JANE CRITCHLEY ONLINE LANGUAGE GUIDE TO LES CHORISTES
Contains among many files - Teacher Guide, Amelie and General Film Vocabulary,Lesson Starters, Synopsis, Adjectives, Adjectives Exercises, WJEC Mark Scheme plus much more.
FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY SARAH LEAHY
LE DERNIER MÉTRO/LAST METRO (PG) FRANCE 1980 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
The year is 1942, and Paris is occupied by German forces. Jewish theatre owner Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) has handed over the control of his theatre to his actress wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) while he hides out in the cellar, hoping to avoid capture by the Nazis. During rehearsals for the next production, the presence of a womanising actor (Gerard Depardieu) and a Nazi-sympathising journalist cause many difficulties for Marion.
Eventually, she is forced to decide between her loyalty to her husband and her love for her countrymen, and acts out her solution in the production she has been rehearsing.
DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT/TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT 2014 FRANCE DARDENNE L & JP DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
When Sandra returns to work after a leave of absence she is horrified to discover that her colleagues have opted to take a bonus at the expense of her job. As she tries to process the information she has just two days and one night to convince them they have made a mistake.
ENTRE LES MURS/CLASS (15) 2008 FRANCE CANTET, LAURENT £17.99
Absorbing Palme d'Or winning journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year.
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: ENTRE LES MURS : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL FRENCH
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891755 2017 - £11.99
FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY SARAH LEAHY
INTERVIEW WITH LAURENT CANTET AND FRANÇOIS BÉGAUDEAU
ONLINE RESOURCE COVERING - CHARACTER & IDENTITY DEBATE & CONFLICT, EDUCATION & FILM STUDIES -
LA HAINE (15) 1995 FRANCE KASSOVITZ, MATHIEU DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Award winning film about a day on a tough Paris housing estate for three teenagers.
The film takes place over 24 hours following the police shooting of a young man from a deprived housing estate, and shows the world through the eyes of three friends –one North African, one Jewish and one black –who are frustrated with politicians, the media and police brutality.
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: LA HAINE : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL FRENCH
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471889943 2017 - £11.99
STUDY GUIDE FOR STUDENTS OF AS/A2 FRENCH
INTOUCHABLES/UNTOUCHABLE (15) 2011 FRANCE OLIVIER NAKACHE, O/TOLEDANO.E £19.99
Quadriplegic rich aristocrat is cared for by young Senegalese émigré. Despite their very different backgrounds and outlooks on life, the two men quickly form a strong bond, teaching each other important life lessons about acceptance, respect and the true meaning of friendship in the process.
IRISH FILM INSTITUTE FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT FOR INTOUCHABLES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO INTOUCHABLES
LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS/400 BLOWS (PG) 1959 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Francois Truffaut's semi-autobiographical first feature stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, an unruly young Parisian whose unhappiness leads him into trouble. Frequently running away from school and home, Antoine spends much of his time playing with his friends on the streets of the city; but events take a more serious turn when the theft of a typewriter lands him in trouble with the police.
FILM GUIDE IN FRENCH WRITTEN BY ALICE MENNESSON
FRENCH CNC GUIDE TO LES 400 COUPS
UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANÇAILLES/VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (15) 2004 FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE £19.99
As World War I draws to an end, Mathilde has received word that her fiancé Manech is wounded and lost in no-mans-land. She goes out to find him.
LA VIE EN ROSE (12) 2007 FRANCE DAHAN, OLIVIER £19.99
A big screen treatment for one of France’s most revered singers, Edith Piaf.
BEGAG, AZOUZ: LE GONE DU CHAÂBA
Autobiographical novel about a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown in Lyon, known as The Chaâba by its residents.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Editions du Seuil ISBN: 9782020800327 - £9.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SHANTYTOWN KID : LE GONE DU CHAABA
University of Nebraska Press ISBN 9780803262584 - £14.99
CAMUS, ALBERT: L'ÉTRANGER
Camus looks at all the events leading up to a man shooting another man dead, as well as exploring the issued of the meaninglessness of life.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Gallimard ISBN: 9782070360024 - £7.25
Routledge, ISBN: 9780415025867 - £21.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - OUTSIDER
Penguin ISBN: 9780141198064 - £7.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: L'ETRANGER: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL FRENCH SET TEXT
This guide for L'etranger is ideal for use in the classroom or for independent revision, providing insight into characters, theme and language,with activities in French that prompt a closer analysis of the text.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418344 2017 - £9.50
COLETTE: LE BLÉ EN HERBE
Colette’s, at the time a controversial novella, set in the 1920s describing the physicality relationship of two friends moving from childhood into adulthood.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Garnier Flammarion, ISBN: 9782081354524 - £5.70
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - RIPENING SEED - AT PRESENT OUT OF PRINT
Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780140183214
ERNAUX, ANNIE: LA PLACE
A daughters reflexion on her father's life beginning with her father's birth in 1899 till is death in 1967
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Folio ISBN: 9782070377220 - £6.95
Routledge ISBN: 9780415059268 - £21.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - A MAN'S PLACE
Seven Stories Press. ISBN: 9781609804039 - £8.99
JOFFO, JOSEPH.: UN SAC DE BILLES
Memoir about young Joseph Joffo who, as a ten year old Jew, is given five thousand francs and instructed with his brother to flee Nazi-occupied Paris.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge ISBN: 9780415017152 - £21.99
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253029496 - £7.90
Hachette ISBN: 9782011611543 - £8.80
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - A BAG OF MARBLES
Univ.Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226400693 - £18
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: UN SAC DE BILLES : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL FRENCH
This accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891878 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: UN SAC DE BILLES: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL FRENCH SET TEXT
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418337 2018 - £9.50
MAUPASSANT, DE GUY: BOULE DE SUIF
The ten travellers, constituting a microcosm of French society, share a stagecoach to flee to Le Havre in the Franco-Prussian War.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Editions Gallimard (Folio Plus Collège) ISBN: 9782070793167 - £3.55
Boule de suif : et autres nouvelles Editions Larousse ISBN: 9782035834232 - £4.40
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IN - THE BEST SHORT STORIES
Wordsworth Classics. ISBN: 9781853261893 - £1.99
MAURIAC, FRANÇOIS: THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX
Cleared of poisoning her husband we follow Therese Desqueyroux through her banishment, escape to Paris, and final years of solitude.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253004219 £7.60
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THERESE
Penguin Modern Classics ISBN: 9780141186221
DVD THERESE DESQUEYROUX (12A) 2012 FRANCE MILLER, CLAUDE £19.99
The film stars Audrey Tautou as the eponymous Thérèse, a cultured and intelligent woman who enters into an arranged marriage in rural 1920s France.
MOLIÈRE: LE TARTUFFE
First performed in 1664 this play is about the religious fraud Tartuffe, who has wormed his way into the affections and household of rich merchant, Orgon.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Larousse ISBN: 9782035859174 - £4.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION -
Nick Hern Books ISBN: 9781854596376 - £4.99
PAGNOL, MARCEL: LE CHÂTEAU DE MA MÈRE
The novel tells the story of growing up in Provence in the early part of the 1900s.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
De Fallois ISBN: 9782877065085 - £8.95
DVD - LE CHATEAU DE MA MERE (U) 1991 FRANCE YVES, ROBERT £19.99
One of the most successful French films based on a Pagnol novel, telling the story of growing up in Provence .
ROCHEFORT, CHRISTIANE: LES PETITS ENFANTS DU SIÈCLE
Written in 1961 this critique of postwar French society follows Josyane Bouvier, who is living in a souless housing estates, from child to young woman.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Le Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253002949 - £7.85
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL : LES MAINS SALES
Intriguing play about political violence in which a young communist is sent to assassinate another party member who’s qualities he begins to admire.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Folio. ISBN: 9782070368068 - £8.35
Routledge ISBN: 9780415039352 - £20.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IN THE COLLECTION - NO EXIT AND THREE OTHER PLAYS
Vintage ISBN: 9780679725169 - £14.95
VIGAN, DELPHINE DE: NO ET MOI
Lou Bertignac, who has an IQ of 160, meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets, and Lou persuades her parents to let No live with them. No's presence forces Lou and her parents to finally face the sadness that has enveloped the family.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253124801 - £9.30
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - NO AND ME
Bloomsbury ISBN: 9780747599647 - £8.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: NO ET MOI: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL FRENCH
Study guide to the NO ET MOI.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418351 2018 - £9.50
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