Newsletter n°297 / What's French in London

Dear franceinlondoner

Mel Funn: [seen as an insert title] Mr. Marceau, how would you like to appear in the first silent movie made in nearly fifty years?
Marcel Marceau: [in French, the only spoken line in the film] Non!
Dom Bell: [seen as an insert title after Mel hangs up the phone] What did he say?
Mel Funn: [seen as an insert title] I don't know. I don't speak French!

TV Series Festival

French and British TV Series Festival - 2012

From 19 to 22 January

The Institut français is holding its first ever French and British TV Series Festival. TV fanatics, enthusiasts and newcomers will be able to discover the cream of French and British TV series with the most amazing actors, screenwriters and directors in attendance. It's time to get totally serialized!

We highly recommend for you to see Desperate Parents (Fais pas ci, Fais pas ça - season 4, episode 1 on 21st January at 3.15), introduced by one of the actors, Valérie Bonneton.), a comedy about two polar opposite families on a collision course. The relaxed Bouleys are rebelling against the strict upbringing they experienced. The selfrighteous Lepics stick with traditional Catholic values.

The Burma Conspiracy

Out on DVD on 23 January 2012

Following the murder of his adoptive father Nerio, Largo Winch (Tomer Sisley) is now CEO of the vast W Group. But the compromises required by money and power don't suit Largo. He announces the sale of the Group and the creation of a humanitarian foundation, to be led by his father's oldest friend.

5 x DVDs of the Burma Conspirancy to be won

Huis Clos at Trafalgar Studios

From 23 until 28 January

One room, no windows, and a locked door. There’s no way out for three people left alone to share their memories together. Fear of what lies beyond the door turns talk of their earthly transgressions into a meditation on the afterlife and a realisation that they are torturing each other in a living hell ("Hell is other people")...

The Atalante

In 1934, Jean Vigo creates a master piece which you can now see at both the BFI and at the Renoir.
L'Atalante is the name of a barge in which a young couple Jean and Juliette discover a new life together.
With Michel Simon, Jean Dasté and Dita Parlo.
Highly recommended.

Exploitation, Debt & Aid in Egypt and Tunisia: What Direction for the Revolutions? with Dr Adam Hanieh

23 January @ 6.30pm

Dr. Adam Hanieh will examine the logic of financial aid in the Middle East, locating the discussion within the political economy of the uprisings and the neoliberal transformation of the region over the past two decades.