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Ciné lumière will be the London host for the 17th edition of the French Film Festival UK from 11 November to 6 December. The festival showcases the best of contemporary French cinema from established auteurs to new talents, and this year will feature tributes to two legendary figures: Jacques Tati and Jean Eustache. Central to the festival are several monumental biopics, notably Sagan, Tabarly, and Séraphine.

Highlights of the festival include the preview screenings of Jacques Audiard's Cannes Grand Prix winner A Prophet (now France's contender for best foreign language film Oscar) and the seven César award winner Séraphine. Director Pierre Marcel will be attending the festival to present his documentary Tabarly about Gallic master mariner Eric Tabarly who finally was lost at sea en route to Fife Regatta.

The French Film Festival UK runs from 11 November to 6 December in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Warwick, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee, St Andrews and Stirling.

Films

Totally Tati

The Totally Tati season will celebrate the genius of the film-maker and actor who reinvented the art of slapstick comedy and through his Mr Hulot character found the perfect foil for his musings on humanity in the face of consumerism and mechanisation. The retrospective includes a newly restored digital print of the classic Mr Hulot's Holiday.

Hommage to Jean Eustache

In a relatively brief career Jean Eustache's outstanding achievement was his 1973 feature, The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain), a remarkable cinematic exploration of the sexual revolution of the late 60s and early 70s.  Here we present his early works: Bad Company (1963), Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966) and The Pig (1970), the first two of which are shown just before the festival.