• Mourning becomes Electra
    Mourning becomes Electra
    Play in French

    Mourning becomes Electra, by Eugene O’Neill

    The story of the curse of the Mannon family is O'Neill's take on the Oresteia and a way for this major playwright, Nobel prize winner, to talk about his own family.

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  • Chochana Boukhobza
    Chochana Boukhobza
    Book Corner

    Chochana Boukhobza at the French Insitute as part of Jewish Book Week

    During Jewish Book Week, Chochana Boukhobza will be at the French Institute to talk about her moving novel,The Third Day.

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  • Tomboy
    Tomboy
    DVD Release

    Tomboy out on DVD

    Ten-year-old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains much the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure for a boy.

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  • Film

    Carnage

    Drama A strikingly original feature debut from director Delphine Gleize, whose short film, with their vibrant and distinctive visual style, have won her international recognition. Carnages opens with the slaughter of a bull at the hand of a matador and follows individual stories of people across...

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  • Revolver
    Revolver
    Festival HMV Next Big Thing

    Revolver, We were Evergreen and Singtank at the festival HMV Next BigThing

    For the third year running, live music festival HMV Next Big Thing will be bringing 2012's best new music to the masses. The French Music Bureau has joined forced with the kind folks at HMV for a Oui Love labelled gig at the Barfly, Camden on 8 February. What could be more fitting? Oui Love...

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Carnage

Two pairs of parents agree to hold a cordial meeting after their sons were involved in a fight. As their time together progresses, increasingly childish behaviour throws the evening into chaos....


A Monster in Paris

The film is set in Paris, during the Seine flood of 1910. An experiment gone bad turns a flea into an anthropomorphic monster (Matthieu Chedid), who eventually meets and is hidden by Lucille...


House of Tolerance

At the dawn of the 20th century, in a house of tolerance in Paris, the face of a prostitute bears a scar that sketches a tragic smile. Around the woman who laughs, the lives of the other women...


The Artist

A huge success at Cannes , and already being tipped for glory at the Oscars, ‘The Artist’ is due out in London on 30th December. Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if...


Midnight In Paris

This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their...


Les Enfants du Paradis

Often featuring on all-time-best lists, Carné and Prévert's portrait of the Boulevard du Crime in the early 19th century is a sublime romance, miraculously made during the Nazi Occupation. Inspired...


The Atalante

L'Atalante is the name of a barge in which a young couple Jean and Juliette discover a new life together.


Céline and Julie go Boating

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. A cult movie and a masterpiece,...



Book launch back to categories

Noah's Child, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children....


Cinema event back to categories

An Italian Straw Hat by René Clair

Screening of An Italian Straw Hat with live musical accompaniment by Andrew Youdell, at the Barbican Centre.


Classical music back to categories

L'amour à la française

Five singers from the Royal Academy of Music will perform works depicting the various facades of love. This recital begins the 2012 classical music programme at the French Institute.


David Guetta at Alexandra Palace

Two-time Grammy winning internationally respected artist, producer, DJ, David Guetta has announced a massive headline, bank holiday weekend show at London’s Alexandra Palace on Friday 1st June 2012.

French party in London

Do you feel like clubbing and meeting French people? Join the Kink Bar every Thursday at 9pm in Leicester square next to Burger King on the left.


Coming Up back to categories

Successful Expatriation event

What makes a sucessful expatriation? Find out from presentations of experts such as Lloyds TSB International and expatriate coach Sylvie Aderibigbe and others at Hotel Verta, Battersea...


Revolver, We were Evergreen and Singtank at the festival HMV Next BigThing

For the third year running, live music festival HMV Next Big Thing will be bringing 2012's best new music to the masses. The French Music Bureau has joined forced with the kind folks at HMV for a...

Johnny Hallyday Live in London: book your tickets now!

Arguably France’s greatest rock star and icon, Johnny Hallyday brings his 'Avec Vous Tour' to the Royal Albert Hall for his first ever live show in the UK!


Conferences back to categories

Culture shock workshop

Learn what culture shock is all about and how to get rid of it. Devise your action plan to overcome it.

Chochana Boukhobza at the French Insitute as part of Jewish Book Week

During Jewish Book Week, Chochana Boukhobza will be at the French Institute to talk about her moving novel,The Third Day.


The Burma Conspiracy Out on DVD, 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...

Tomboy out on DVD

Ten-year-old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains...


Substitute, followed by a Q&A with Vikash Dhorasoo & Fred Poulet, on 16 February at 8.30pm.

6 April, 2006. Fred Poulet, singer, author and video filmmaker asks his friend, Vikash Dhorasoo, to film his everyday life until 9 July, day of the World Cup final in Berlin.


SUSAN BLACK SINGS PIAF

Back by popular demand Susan Black will sing Piaf once more at the Leicester Square Theatre.


 FREE  FREE London Summer Camp & Teen Travel Fair

Are you a parent looking for interesting ideas for your children for next summer or you want your child to improve her language skills? You may even have a teenager needing something special to add...

Globekid French Travel Guides come to London

GlobeKid.com comes to London. Families will discover this great city like never before!


Plays/ Opera back to categories

Lady MacWata by Magali Muxart

Written and performed by Magali Muxart, this three act play, is developed by Exchange Theatre under the artistic direction of David Furlong

Clocks

With a steampunk pool of ridiculous props, a smoke machine and some costumes. Watch the challenge ! This fantastically funny show features all your favourite characters : Passe-Partout, Phileas...

Mourning becomes Electra, by Eugene O’Neill

The story of the curse of the Mannon family is O'Neill's take on the Oresteia and a way for this major playwright, Nobel prize winner, to talk about his own family.

Juliette Binoche Stars in a New Production of Mademoiselle Julie at the Barbican Theatre

Juli­ette Binoche takes to the London stage once more for August Strindberg’s Mademois­elle Julie at the Bar­bican in September 2012 as part of the venue’s Olympics celebrations. Book now to avoid...


 FREE  Les Tambours pour la Paix - Competition of Poetry for children (in French)

This event takes place each year on 21 March in Belgium and abroad. Open to children aged 13 or under.. This poetry competition is designed to make children aware of their role as citizen.


LAURENT GERRA in London for the first time

Laurent Gerra in London with a brand new show: new jokes, new impressions, such as "Ribery... too"; already a classic, new voices and new faces. He does impressions of Dutronc, Dassin and Philippe Manoeuvre - better than the real ones!


Watch the French teams/France play Important Matches in February

Find out where you will be able to watch all the matches.


What's on in Paris? back to categories

The invention of the savage

The Quai Branly Museum, thanks to its new exhibition "The invention of the savage", unveils the history of women, men and children brought from Africa, Asia, Oceania and America to be exhibited in the Western world in circus numbers, theatre or cabaret performances, fairs, zoos, parades, reconstructed villages or international and colonial fairs.



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