Newsletter n°318 / Less than 9 days to the Games





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Olympic Games

Live a Unique Olympic Moment at Club France

26th July until 12th August

Come and meet the French athletes between 26th July and 12 August. Follow their exploits and live some exceptional moments at Club France (Old Billingsgate Market) where the French are based for the duration of the Games. The forty-one medallists will try and beat the record set in Beijing.

A pair of tickets to be won for the Official Opening of Club de France at Old Billingsgate on 26th July

Top 10 : France's Gold Hopes at the 2012 Olympics (Latest)

With only 9 days left before the London 2012 Games, it is definitely time to have a last look at France’s best chances for Olympic gold. If you are a French supporter planning to attend one of the Olympic competitions, then you should choose one of the following sports (if it's not too late!). Massive injection of national pride guaranteed when the Marseillaise rings out during the medal ceremony. Paris may have lost the 2012 Olympics bidding race, but there is no doubt France will get its revenge by hogging the top of the podiums in London.

Cinema

The Women on the Sixth Floor

Until 26th July

A wealthy bourgeois building in Paris in the early 60s. On the first floor lives Mr Joubert, an uptight but good-hearted stockbroker, with his socialite wife. On the sixth floor live a group of cheerful and noisy Spanish women working as maids in the rich apartments on the other floors of the building. Shortly after María enters Mr Joubert's house as a helper, Mr and Mrs Joubert's lives take a radical turn – including his move to the sixth floor. Delightful, witty and funny, the film was a huge critical and commercial success last year in France.

In your hands (Contre toi)

Out now

A woman cautiously emerges from a house in the Paris suburbs, then returns to her home and work, telling everyone she knows that she has been on holiday and that everything is normal. Surgeon Anna (Kristin Scott Thomas) clearly has a secret that she doesn't intend to reveal - but this taut thriller by Lola Doillon keeps the narrative on a slow-burning fuse until Anna walks into a police station and explains what's really been happening to her. Essentially a two-hander for most of its duration, Doillon's film pits Anna against a man (Pio Marmaï) with a long-standing grudge against her.

DVD

The Prey (La Proie) with Albert Dupontel to own on DVD from 23rd July

Out on 23rd July

Bankrobber Franck Adrien serves a prison sentence after successfully robbing a national bank, but before he gets caught he manages to hide the money and it's not just the police that are looking for the money. Maurel, his cellmate, is accused of being a child molester and a killer but he claims that he is innocent.

5 x copies of the DVD to be won

Exhibition

From Paris : A Taste for Impressionism at the Royal Academy

Until 23rd September

Seventy impressionist works by Manet, Monet, Pissaro, Degas, Renoir and many more brought to you from The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Gig

Africa Utopia at the Southbank Centre

Until 28th July

Africa Utopia is a month-long festival of music, theatre, film, literature, dance, fashion, talks and debates programmed by the Southbank Centre in conjunction with renowned Senegalese singer and human-rights campaigner Baaba Maal.

Health

Baby Chest Physiotherapy to Make Breathing Easier- A French Technique that Works

Baby chest physiotherapy is a special therapy which uses specific techniques to loosen and clear mucus from the baby's chest. This treatment helps to clear the baby’s airways and will help the baby to feed better, breathe more easily and let everyone have a peaceful night’s sleep. Why do French GPs prescribe this therapy and does it work?

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