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.
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!
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 wonderful new animated film by the man who brought us "A Belleville Rendez-vous"
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...
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.
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
Luchino Visconti's masterpiece, "The Leopard" is based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Starring Alain Delon. A must-see.
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.
Dubbed 'red hot' by The New York Times, Hélène Grimaud is a pianist with a difference.
Bertrand Tavernier’s thrilling historical adventure is out for the first time ever on DVD in the UK.
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...
An intimate documentary on the life and work of the great French artist.
Juliette Binoche astounds in this award winning film coming soon to the Gate. 3 pairs of tickets to be won!
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!
"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."
Loved the film? The DVD is finally yours to own.
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 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...
This year—the Serpentine's 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel.
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...
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...
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.
And you could win £850 to spend in one of their stores!
Find out about the fantastic films that are in store for you next month at the Barbican.
Increase your wine knowledge of the most prolific and important French wine regions with Decanter's Wine Education Course starting in September.
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.
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...
Rendez-vous at the French Institute to hear the author talk about his latest book.
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.
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.