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    Luc Besson writes and directs this comic fantasy adventure adapted from Jacques Tardi's graphic novels of the 1970s. Set in the early 20th century, the film tells the colourful tale of popular novelist and adventuress Adele Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin), who deals in her own inimitable style with would-be suitors, the police, monsters and various other diversions as she attempts to save a mad scientist who has brought a pterodactyl to life so that he can re-animate an Egyptian mummy and use its ancient magic to revive Adele's sister, who has been in a coma for four years following a bizarre tennis accident   

    Level: AS, A2, Dip 3, GCSE,        Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies

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    À Bout De Souffle Teachers'  Notes   - CLICK HERE

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     Exquisite debut film by Faucher,  about two women’s friendship across the generations and the overcoming of sorrow and adversity through a common bond.

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     Compelling psychological thriller.

    Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers       Subjects: French, English, Film Studies, Media Studies

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 Sophisticated family drama.

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    A Jewish girl's story opens wounds from France's wartime past.  Living in Paris while her architect husband Bertrand (Frederic Pierrot) restores his family's apartment block, writer Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) stumbles across the wartime history of the block's original Jewish owners, who were arrested by the Vichy government as part of the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942 and forced to sell their property. As the story unfolds, Julia becomes increasingly haunted by the fate of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Melusine Mayance), who, after being detained, escapes in a desperate attempt to return to the block where she has secretly hidden her younger brother..

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     Documentary that follows a year in the life of a French village school.

    Level: AS, A2, GCSE       Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies

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     Absorbing Palme d'Or winning journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year.

    Level: AS, A2, Dip 1, Dip 2, Dip 3,      Subjects: GCSE Citizen

    Interview with Laurent Cantet and François Bégaudeau - CLICK HERE

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    Drama about the residents of the theatre district and their dreams of fortune and fame as seen through the eyes of an impressionable countrygirl waitress in a local café.

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     Taut tale of passion and obsession.

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    Documentary the lives of those who live 'off the grid' in France. Gleaning is the act of gathering the leftovers from a harvest after the main, profitable crop has been taken away by the farmer. As well as examining the lives of actual gleaners, who subsist from the remnants of modern agriculture, Varda extends the metaphor to enquire about those who live by more modern forms of gleaning.  

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 French wartime comedy farce.

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    Award winning film about a day on a tough Paris housing estate for three teenagers.

     Level: AS, A2, KS4 , Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies

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     Nail biting dark comedy thriller. Michel (Laurent Lucas) and Claire (Mathilde Seigner) have just departed on their summer holiday when they stop off at a service station and bump into Michel's old schoolmate Harry (Sergi Lopez). The couple think it's just a chance meeting, but they begin to worry when Harry turns up at their holiday home and begins doing everything he can to ingratiate himself into their lives. Is Harry just keen to make new friends or does he possess more sinister motives?

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    Comedy drama depicting the friendship between an illegal child immigrant and an elderly Frenchman.

     Level: AS, A2, KS4      Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies,  Citizenship,

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    Light-hearted drama following the bond that develops between three social outcasts who share the same residential house.

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    World War Two drama set in German-occupied Paris in 1942. Tahar Rahim stars as Younes, a young, unemployed, Algerian immigrant who is inspired        to become a freedom fighter after forming an unexpected friendship with Jewish singer Salim Halali (Mahmud Shalaby).

    Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies   

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     Historical drama by the director of ‘Cryano de Bergerac’. Stars Juliette  Binoche.

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     A big screen treatment for one of France's most revered singers, Edith Piaf. From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Piaf's life was a battle to sing and survive. Raised in poverty, Edith's unique voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period - Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her a star all around the world.

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    10-year-old tomboy Laure (Zoé Héran) moves to a  different neighbourhood with her family, Laure is mistaken for a boy by Lisa (Jeanne Disson) and decides to accept this new identity under the name of Michaël. She spends a summer with Lisa, playing games and experiencing first kisses, but it is only a matter of time before the truth emerges.

    Level: S4-S6      Subjects: French, Health & Wellbeing

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    Bazil, a video shop assistant who ends up with a bullet permanently lodged inside his brain after a gangland shootout  takes on two arms manufacturers, one of whom made the bullet that so nearly cost him his life.

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 Period drama brings to life the youth of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who would later become known to the world as Moliere,  but at the age of 22 he was only a struggling actor.   

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 Charming comedy  staring Gerard Depardieu.

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 A young girl is found murdered and all the clues lead to the reclusive Monsieur Hire, a loner and not popular with his neighbours who think him strange.

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      Conspiracy theory thriller from actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet.

      Level: AS, A2, GCSE      Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies

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 Based on the graphic novel about her own experiences writer and director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a  young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, when people¹s hopes were dashed as fundamentalists took power.   Contains both French and English version.  BLU RAY - £24.99

   Level:AS, A2, GCSE     Subjects: Art & Design, Citizenship, English, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politic  

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    French comedy starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Suzanne (Deneuve) is the trophy wife of ruthless umbrella tycoon Robert Pujol (Fabrice Luchini). When Robert's workers go on strike and take him hostage, Suzanne takes over the running of the factory and - with the help of her former lover, communist union leader Maurice Babin (Depardieu) - quickly proves herself to be a far more effective manager than her husband.

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    The pleasure and pain of familial relationships come under the microscope in this cross-generational film.

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    Fact based drama told from the perspective of 11-year Jo Weismann.  In July 1942, under directions of the Nazis,  the French police  rounding up thousands of Jewish men, women and children taking them to the now notorious Vel' d'Hiv stadium, awaiting transporting to extermination camps in Poland  BLU RAY - £16.99

   Level: AS, A2, GCSE, KS3, KS4        Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies

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 Business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown totake a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. 

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 A circular tale of love and seduction based on the Arthur Schnitzler work.

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     Based on the best-selling novel, the film tells the story of Bauby, a  42 year old paralysed man. Trapped in what he saw as a ‘Diving Bell’, a prison from        which he was unable to escape, Bauby’s only lifeline became the temporary release, or  ‘Butterfly’, of his  memories and imagination.

       Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers      Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies

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 What do you do when your 28 year old son won’t leave home.

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    Marcel Carne transposes Zola's dark tale of ennui and treachery to the post-WWII era. Simone Signoret stars in the title role as Therese, a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille (Jacques Duby) and living with him in the home of his paralysed mother (Jean Sylvere). When she meets an acquaintance of Camille's, strapping truck driver Laurent (Raf Vallone), the two begin a secret affair - but jealousy and anger lead to tragic consequences for all three.

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 Based on the novel by former convict Jose Giovanni, Le Trou tells the true story of a group of inmates’ escape from a prison in Paris.

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     Juliette Binoche plays a woman who loses her husband, a great composer, in a car  crash.  She tries  to build a new life, but a journalist suspects she is the composer of her husbands  music.  

       Level: AS, A2, GCSE      Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies

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French animated crime thriller spoof.

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 French drama chronicling the relationship between an illegal Kurdish immigrant from Iraq, who plans to  swim to Britain from Calais and a French swimming instructor.

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