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The Institut français (including Ciné Lumière, La Médiathèque, Bibliothèque Quentin Blake and Café Tangerine) is temporarily closed until further notice, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Reading Group
Discover this year list of book we will discuss throughout this upcoming reading group season.
All books are available to borrow in French & English at La Médiathèque (check availably and reserve online) and on our free digital library Culturethèque
9 April – La seine était rouge – The Seine was Red by Leïla Sebbar
30 April – Special Beyond Words Literature Festival Reading group
Contemporary Congolese Literature:
Verre Cassé – Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
Tram 83 – Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanja Mujila
Orage sur le Tanganyika (B1) by Wilfried N’Sondé
7 May – Le mur – The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
June – Sérotonine – Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
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FOCUS
From rock, pop and dance, to jazz and classical music, La Médiathèque is buzzing with an incredible music selection. Discover, read and listen to the hottest French artists with this winter selection.
Gadjo Dilo, dir. by T.Gatlif | DVD with English and Fr. subs
L’écume des jours, dir. by M. Gondry | DVD
Gainsbourg, dir. by J.Sfar | DVD with Eng. subs
Pick an album from our Culturethèque selections and listen to it on the 1Dtouch platform, the first fair-trade streaming service dedicated to independent musical creation.
OUR HEARTS SKIP A BEAT FOR THIS SELECTION OF DOCUMENTS
Our Cinema specialist’s choices
– Frantz, dir. by F. Ozon, 2016 | DVD (French subtitles available)
Just after the Great War, in a small German town, Anna returns each day to the cemetery to the grave of her fiancé, Frantz, who died on the frontlines in France.
But this particular day, Adrien, a young Frenchman, has come to lay flowers on the grave of his German friend.
The presence of a Frenchman after the German defeat gives rise to passionate reactions in the town.
– La Danseuse, dir. by Stéphanie di Giusto, 2016 | DVD (French subtitles available)
Loïe Fuller was born in the American West. Nothing in her background prepared this robust cowgirl to become the toast of the Parisian cabarets of La Belle Epoque, even less to dance on the stage of the Paris Opera. Then she invents the “Serpentine Dance.” Hidden by yards of floating fabric, her arms extended by two wooden poles, as she moves beneath the stage lights; Loïe becomes a flower, a butterfly, flames, and each night crowds call out for more. But her encounter with Isadora Duncan, a prodigious young dancer hungry for fame and glory, will precipitate the fall of this icon at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Our Children’s Librarians like
– Mon imagiers des vêtements, by Nathalie Choux | First Non Fiction Book
– Comptines pour Compter, by C. Hudrisier | Audio Book
– Maman Renard, by Amandine Momenceau | Picture Books
– Océano, by Anouck & Louis Rigaud | Pop-up Book
– Un si terrible secret, by Evelyn Brisou-Pellen | Teens’ Novel
– Mercredi, by Anne Bertier | Picture Book
Discover our handpicked selection on of the latest Children’s e-book on Culturethèque
Our Comics specialist says
– Culottées 2, by Pénélope Bagieu | Comic Book
– La Légèreté, by Catherine Meurisse | Comic Book
– Coquelicots d’Irak, by B. Findakly & L. Trondheim | Comic Book
– Bon baisers d’Iran, by Lenaïc Vilain | Comic Book
– Dans la Combi de Thomas Pesquet, by Marion Montaigne | Comic Book
– Par les chemins noirs, by David B. | Comic Book
– Jour J (27) : Les ombres de Constantinople, by Fred Duval & Jean-Pierre Pécau | Comic Book
Our literature expert recommends
– La Nuit pour adresse, by Maud Simonnot | Novel (in French)
– The French Art of War, by Alexis Jenni (translated by Franck Wynne) | Novel (in English)
– Celui qui est digne d’être aimé, by Abdellah Taïa | Novel (in French)
– En Finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, by Edouard Louis | Novel
also available in English : The End of Eddy
– Boussole, by Mathias Enard | Culturethèque – eBook
– This Little Art, Kate Briggs and Daniel Hahn on Translation | Podcast – Culturetheque
Our Music specialist recommends
– Quand Rennes s’est révélée rock, by Grégoire Laville | Non-Fiction Book
– Ibifornia, by Cassius, 2016 | CD- Electro
– Mammifères, by Christophe Miossec, 2016 | CD – Chanson française
– Doni doni, by Erik Truffaz Quartet. Foufino productions, 2016 | CD – Jazz
– Fearless, by Marian Kaye.Capitol, 2015 | CD- Pop
Discover Culturethèque’s extensive music selection! Browse through 68,000 artists from independent labels featured on 1Dtouch, a new fair-trade digital music platform available on Culturethèque, the free digital plateform of the Institut français.