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Dinner for Schmucks

A decent cast wrestle with a crummy script in this loose and creaky Hollywood spin on 'Le dîner de Cons', Francis Veber's award-winning French play and film.


22 Bullets (L'Immortel)

Jean Reno is at his best as Charlie Matteï, a retired mobster who goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body. A must see!


Certified Copy

A beautiful film by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami set in Tuscany for which Binoche rightly won yet another award at this year's Cannes Film Festival.


The Illusionist

The wonderful new animated film by the man who brought us "A Belleville Rendez-vous"


Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is the latest film on the Grande Dame of fashion, but instead of focusing on clothes, it explores the consuming relationship between the fashion icon and the radical...


London River

The year is 2005. Two people with two very different background and coming from different places make a journey together to find their children who are studying in London.


White Material

Isabelle Huppert, one of France's best actresses, joins forces with Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum) one of France's best female directors, to bring us perhaps one of the most remarkable films. A...


Heartbreaker

Two of French cinema's brightest things team up in this delightful comedy about life, love and break-ups, which earned an astonishing 10 million Euros at the French box office in just 10 days....


Le Refuge

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost,...


Gainsbourg

Sfar's film takes the audience through the various phases of Gainsbourg's career: the childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris; the musical awakening in the 50s; the love-affairs with Brigitte Bardot and...


The Concert

Andrei Filipov (Alexei Guskov) is a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, who was stripped of his position in 1980 for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians, as part of Brezhnev's anti-Semitic...


The Leopard

Luchino Visconti's masterpiece, "The Leopard" is based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Starring Alain Delon. A must-see.


Breathless

A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him. A classic, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.



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French Pianist Helene Grimaud at The Royal Festival Hall

Dubbed 'red hot' by The New York Times, Hélène Grimaud is a pianist with a difference.

D'Artagnan's Daughter out On DVD 4th October

Bertrand Tavernier’s thrilling historical adventure is out for the first time ever on DVD in the UK.

Wax Tailor: Live at the Electric Ballroom on 7th October

After selling out KOKO in January, Wax Tailor is back in London with his full live band. Setting up shop a couple doors down in Camden Town’s Electric Ballroom, this French Hip Hop maestro promises...

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, And The Tangerine- 9th September at the Barbican

An intimate documentary on the life and work of the great French artist.

Certified Copy at the Gate Cinema, Notting Hill

Juliette Binoche astounds in this award winning film coming soon to the Gate. 3 pairs of tickets to be won!


French bands plan British festival invasion!

There's no getting away from it, out hot hot statistics prove it – more French bands than ever are hitting the UK shores this summer!


Lola To Own On DVD In September

"In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens : she is Lola, now a cabaret dancer."

Largo Winch - Deadly Revenge Out To Own On DVD 23rd August

Loved the film? The DVD is finally yours to own.


Exhibitions back to categories

 FREE  Fourth Plinth Programme - Six New Proposals

Six of the world’s most exciting contemporary artists have been shortlisted to propose a new artwork for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. This year’s winning artist will have their work on...

Camille Silvy: Photographer Of Modern Life, at the National Portrait Gallery

Camille Silvy was a pioneer of early photography and one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century. This exhibition includes many remarkable images which have not been...

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel

This year—the Serpentine's 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel.

 FREE  La Belle Dame Sans Merci

La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a group project curated by Anna Baranova, with work by eight artists among them Chantal Joffe and Dawn Mellor. Paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media works and...

The Courtauld Collects: Twenty Years of Acquisitions

This display explores some of the exceptional new additions to The Courtauld’s collection since it moved to Somerset House twenty years ago. Highlights include works ranging from Turner, Degas and...

Maison Martin Margiela "20" The Exhibition, Somerset House

Somerset House is proud to host Maison Martin Margiela ‘20’ The Exhibition, a major exhibition celebrating 20 years of one of contemporary fashion’s most influential and enigmatic designers.


Film Season back to categories

Barbican Film Highlights September 2010

Find out about the fantastic films that are in store for you next month at the Barbican.


Gourmet Corner back to categories

Decanter French Wine Education Course 2010

Increase your wine knowledge of the most prolific and important French wine regions with Decanter's Wine Education Course starting in September.


Horrible Histories: Terrible Trenches Exhibition, at the Imperial War Museum

Find out about life in the terrible trenches during the First World War in a new family exhibition based on Terry Deary's best selling books, at The Imperial War Museum London.


Plays/ Opera back to categories

Danton's Death by Georg Büchner in a new version by Howard Brenton

1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton’s fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. We loved it. If anything because the Marseillaise is beautifully sung and...


Emmanuel Carrère & Tibor Fischer on Identity - On the 29th September, at the Institut Français

Rendez-vous at the French Institute to hear the author talk about his latest book.

Daniel Pennac & Michael Rosen on Education- At The Institut Français

Daniel Pennac's last book in English, School Blues (MacLehose Press, translated by Sarah Ardizzone), explores the many facets of schooling, including how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning.


TV Program back to categories

Lady Chatterlay on Film 4, on Tuesday, September, 7th

Sexual intercourse began not long after the end of the 'Chatterley’ ban, to paraphrase Philip Larkin. This César-winning, stirring-in-all-senses adaptation of DH Lawrence’s 1920s contraband revives the novel’s progressive vision of sex as an ecstatic, guiltless communion of souls – one that looks as Utopian as ever.



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