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1/ Public screening April - May 2012 at Ciné Lumière

(£6/child)

We recommend for teens:

The Kid with a Bike (New Release)

Class discussion topic: Family relationships

Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children’s home. By chance he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends...

Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival 2011

12+

Screenings: Mon 2 Apr 6.15pm | Tue 3 Apr 8.40pm | Wed 4 Apr 3.00pm, 8.40pm | Thu 5 Apr 8.40pm | or from Tuesday to Friday at 11.00am or 1.00pm

Delicacy (New Release)

Class discussion topic: Relationships

When Nathalie's husband dies in an accident, it brings her world crashing down. Then all of a sudden, she kisses a most unlikely man – her coworker, Markus. This is a story of rebirth but it is also a tale of the singularity of love.

12+

Angel and Tony (New Release)

Class discussion topic: Fishing industry in Normandy

Angel arrives in a small fishing harbour in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who hires her as a fishmonger, lodges her and teaches her the tricks of the trade. Little by little, Tony and Angel manage to tame each other.

Most Promising Actor, Cannes 2011 | Most Promising Actress, Césars 2012

12+

Hollywoo (Exclusive release)

Class discussion topic: Cultural globalisation

Jeanne is a French voice artist who dubs an American actress in a hit TV series. But one day, the American actress announces she's retiring from acting for good. Jeanne decides to go to Los Angeles to convince the American star to head back on set.

12+

La Grande illusion (new print)

Class discussion topic: World War I

Screening in a gorgeous digital restoration, Jean Renoir's 1937 masterpiece La Grande illusion is widely considered as one of the greatest films of all times. Renoir combines a moving humanist message with a complex approach to both the war and 1930s politics.

12+

Le Quai des brumes (new print)

Class discussion topic: Film noir

Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan are doomed lovers on the run in fogbound Le Havre. In Le Quai des brumes, Marcel Carné fuses pre-war French poetic realism with the ingredients that would become integral to post-war film noir.

12+

Screenings: Fri 4 May 6.15pm | Mon 7 May 6.15pm | Thu 10 May 3.00pm | Fri 18 May 6.30pm | or from Tuesday to Friday at 11.00am or 1.00pm

Bel Ami (New Release)

Class discussion topic: French Literature of the 19th century. Parisian life

Based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami chronicles the rise of penniless ex-soldier Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) through the echelons of the 1890s Parisian elite - a tale of ambition, power and seduction.

15+

Screenings: from Tuesday to Friday at 11.00am or 1.00pm

The Assault (Exclusive release)

Class discussion topic: Terrorism

Four terrorists belonging to the Armed Islamic Group hijack the Air France Airbus A300 en route from Alger to Paris. 227 people are on board. No one knows their intentions - they are armed and seem very determined.

15+

Goodbye first love

Class discussion topic: Relationships

Camille and Sullivan are young and in love – until he leaves to South America. Four years later, he comes back, and Camille must decide what to do next. The blooming of first love, subsequent heartbreak and renewal are protrayed with a refreshing directness of style.

15+

Screenings: Mon 28 May 8.40pm | Tue 29 May 5.45pm | Wed 30 May 6.15pm | Thu 31 May 3.00pm, 6.15pm | or from Tuesday to Friday at 11.00am or 1.00pm

2/ Ciné-schools

(from Tuesday to Friday at 11am or 1pm - £5/child with a min. of 30 pupils)

Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages / Kirikou and the wild beasts

by Michel Ocelot, 2005, 75', animation, ages 3 to 10

The story of "Kirikou and the Sorceress" was too short. It didn't have the time to recount everything that Kirikou managed to accomplish. His grandfather tells the story of how inventive Kirikou became a gardener, detective, potter, merchant, traveller, and doctor, always the smallest but bravest hero.

Press book in French
Educational resources 1 - 2 - 3 in French

L'île de Black Mor / Black Mor Island

by Jean-François Laguionie, 2004, 81', animation, ages 6 to 10

1803, on the coast of Cornwall, a 15-year-old boy named 'The Kid' manages to escape from the orphanage where he is held captive. His only possession is the map of a treasure island that fell from the pages of a book about Blak Mor, a notorious pirate. 'The Kid' lives many adventures while travelling towards the treasure island.

Press book in French
Press book + educational resources in French

La Reine soleil / Princess of the Sun

by Philippe Leclerc, 2007, 77', animation, ages 6 to 10

Ancient Egypt, the 18th dynasty. Akhesa is a beautiful 14-year-old princess and daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaton. She refuses to live confined in the royal palace and is eager to find out why her mother Queen Nefertiti has been exiled. With innoncence as their only weapon, Princess Akhesa and accomplice Prince Tut must overcome all kinds of hurdles.

Press book in French

U

by Serge Elissalde and Grégoire Solotareff, 2006, 75', animation, ages 6 to 10

Mona is a princess whose fate no young girl would envy: since her parents' death she has lived alone in her castle. One day, a unicorn called U appears on hearing her cry and decides to protect her. Life for Mona will be transformed forever.

Press book in French
Educational resources in French

Mia et le Migou / Mia & the Migoo

by Jacques-Remy Girerd, 2008, 92' , animation, ages 7+

After her mother's death, eight-year-old Mia leaves her home village, somewhere in a poverty-stricken country, and sets out to find her father. Her journey will lead her to have an extraordinary encounter with the Migous.

Press book in English - Press book in French

Peau d'Ane / Donkey Skin

by Jacques Demy, 1970, 89', fiction, ages 8 to 15

In this fairytale drama adapted from the story by Charles Perrault, the King (Jean Marais) is devastated by the death of his wife, and promises never to marry anyone less beautiful than her. But when he is compelled to marry his own daughter (Catherine Deneuve), her fairy godmother helps her avoid this fate by making her demand impossible gifts, including a suit of clothes made from the skin of a magical donkey!

Press book in French
Educational resources in French

Les Enfants de Timplebach / Trouble at Timpeltill

by Nicolas Bary, 2008, 95', fiction, ages 10 to 15

In the village of Timpeltill, the children pass their time playing pranks on others and resist every kind of authority. Fed up, the parents decide to leave the village... A village without parents! It's not bad news for everyone. Two gangs of children then battle it out to take the control!

Mon petit doigt m'a dit / By the Pricking of My Thumbs

by Pascal Thomas, 2005, 105', fiction, ages 13+

There's an elderly woman who disappears. A village that, behind all its gossip, hides a dark secret, a house split in half, tombs that are better left untouched, a doll that reappears from the past, a terrifying lawyer who wears a death mask. It will take some doing for Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford, who have Hercule Poirot’s patience and Agatha Christie's humor, to uncover the astounding truth.
By the Pricking of My Thumbs is the last in a series of four adventures of the duo invented by Agatha Christie.

La France / France

by Serge Bozon, 2007, 102', fiction, ages 15+

Autumn 1917. Camille waits for the return of her husband who is fighting in the war. Upon receiving a letter to end their relationship, she disguises herself as a man and goes to the front to fight.

Press book in French

Capitaine Achab / Captain Achab

by Philippe Ramos, 2007, 99', fiction, ages 15+

1840. Who would have imagined that the young boy reading the bible in a small hunting lodge in the middle of the wood would one day become the captain of a whaling ship ? No one. And yet it is this very Ahab who grew up to take on the oceans. A fearsome captain, he meets the startlingly white whale, Moby Dick.

Press book in French

Wesh Wesh qu'est-ce qui se passe?

by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 2002, 87', fiction, ages 15+

Cité des Bosquets. A council estate in the Parisian suburbs. The life of a group of young adults confronted with the social decomposition of their neighbourhood, seen through Kamel's eyes. A young man back in the estate after having been expelled.

Solutions locales pour un désordre global / Think Global, Act Rural

by Coline Serreau, 2009, 117', documentary, ages 15+

"Films full of warnings and disasters have been made and have served their purpose, but now it is time to show that solutions do exist. It is time to hear what farmers, philosophers and economists have to say. While explaining why our social model has got bogged down in the ecological, financial, and political crises that we're all know about, these people invent and try out alternatives." - Coline Serreau.

Press book in French
Film website

Jean de La Fontaine, le défi / Jean de La Fontaine, The Challenge

by Daniel Vigne, 2006, 100', biography, ages 17+

Paris resounds with a thousand noises on the morning of September 5, 1661. Fouquet, the powerful superintendent, is arrested by order of Colbert, and young King Louis XIV takes the throne. While other artists renouncing their friendship, rush to pay court to the new monarch, a man stands up to affirm his support for the fallen superintendent. He is the poet Jean de La Fontaine. Without money, he resists, amuses himself, pirouettes, invents "The Fables", and provocative pamphlets against a despotic and decadent regime.

Press book in French