France In London .com - Newsletter 104: France In London News

11/02/2008

Dear franceinlondoner,

France In London, The essential guide for everything French in London, is happy to send you its newsletter number 104.


Film
	The 2008 Bafta Awards 10/02/2008
	Marion Cotillard received this weekend the Best Actress Bafta Award for her performance in La Vie en Rose. Other actresses in the running were Keira Knightley, Julie Christy and Cate Blanchett. The film itself won an additional 3 awards for best music, best make-up and hair and best costum design. Let's not forget that (although the director is American) The diving Bell and the butterfly won best adapted screen play. Well done! More information

	Women's Cinema From Tangiers to Tehran 01/01/1970
	Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran is a celebration of film by women and their representation in cinema from Morocco in the west to Iran in the east. It will be the first festival of its kind to offer audiences an opportunity to appreciate a vital aspect of international cinema, and to actively engage with an exciting and innovative selection of films. One of our favourites is Caramel. Rose will make you laugh until you cry. More information

	Asterix at the Olympic Games - A success in London 01/01/1970
	Despite poor reviews both in France and in the UK, Asterix has managed to pull it off. The Ciné Lumiere was packed for each of the screenings. Kids loved it and parents enjoyed it as well. If you have not yet seen it, there is still a chance for you to buy tickets for the last show on Saturday 16th. More information

DVD release!
	Paris Je t'aime 01/01/1970
	Love in the eyes of 21 directors, who try to capture love in each of the arrondissements of Paris. Each short film is between 5 and 9 minutes, and brings a glimmer of this amazing city, and a snapshot of this emotion, which so many have tried to catch on film. Price: £14.99 More information


	The Singer 01/01/1970
	The Singer was the film we showed at the London's Favourite French Film award night last year so we feel attached to this film which takes you back to a provincial France that we don't see very often. Alain Moreau is a singer who has been playing the provincial dance hall circuit for many years, with his ex-wife managing his career. One night, he meets Marion, a young, attractive but troubled woman, trying to rebuild her life with her son, after a failed marriage. It results in a night of passion... Price: £19.99 More information


Book Signing
	Nancy Huston 01/01/1970
	As part of the Jewish Book Week, Nancy Huston will be talking her new award winning novel. In it, she explores the past through four consecutive generations, taking the reader backwards in time from California to New York, Haifa to Munich, from 9/11 to Nazi Germany, through the terrible fault lines that scarred our recent history. Price: £8/£5 (OAP) 5 x pairs of tickets to be won More information

Ballet
	Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant: Push 01/01/1970
	After three sell-out seasons at Sadler's Wells, five star reviews, a European tour and sold out performances in New York, PUSH will now be performed at the London Coliseum. Sylvie Guillem has never looked lovier. Prices: £15/£75 More information

Exhibitions
	Louvre Masterpieces at the Wallace Collection 01/01/1970
	This exhibition is the first collaboration between the Wallace Collection and the Musée du Louvre, and will contain one of the masterpieces of seventeenth-century Spanish painting, Ribera’s Le Pied-Bot (The Boy with the Club Foot) of 1642, which will make a fascinating comparison with the Spanish paintings in the Wallace Collection by Velázquez, Murillo and Alonso Cano. Admission: Free More information

	Marcel Duchamp Retrospective at the Tate Modern 01/01/1970
	This provocative exhibition presents three colossal 20th century artists who changed the course of art forever - Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptualism and creator of the “readymade”, Man Ray, the celebrated photographer and painter, and Francis Picabia, the French painter and poet. The exhibition explores the affinities and parallels between the work of these three, showing how they responded to each others’ ideas and innovations. Price: £11 (£10, £9 concessions) Free for Tate Members More information

Recipes
	February Recipe 01/01/1970
	Grilled Oysters with Parmesan. Enough to make your mouth water. More information

On the grapevine
	Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle 01/01/1970
	Inscriptions Inscriptions for 2008-2009 will take place online from 5th March 2008. This is the first time that the Lycée will be using this system. So be prepared for some initial teething problems. For more information visit the Lycée website. New Site At last, It' is now confirmed, the Lycée will be opening a new sitellite site in Fulham in September 2008. This new school will be designed to welcome for now 300 children aged 4 to 11. As a result, 12 classes for this age group will disappear in South Kensington to be replaced by classes for the older ones. This initiative is carried out with a view to cap the number of children per class at 28 (the number can be as high as 32 in some classes). More information

	Petula Clark 01/03/2008
	Petula Clark is expected to visit the French Bookshop in March to sign, Françoise Piazza's newly released book: Petula Clark: Une Baladine. Don't miss this icon of the 60s. Her career started in 1950 and hasn't stopped since. Petula was still on tour in October 2007. We will let you know closer the time when the book signing is due to take place. More information


Winners
6 x one copy of Asterix at the Olympic Games for Wii : Blott Philip Taggart John Clasby catherine Rabejac Cyrielle McGeary Anita Humblot Carine 6 x one copy of Asterix at the Olympic Games for DS: Chamberlin Mark KerrPamela Mariani silvia Coquard maxime Samuels-Roach Joan Rees nathalie 6 x one copy of Asterix at the Olympic Games for PS2: YukPan simon.jordan Prophet Harry Lawal Zainab Ryall nicola Fraudeau Julie 5 x one Original Soundtrack: LimLin Li Genova odile Maier Irene Brinklow jolene D'Souza Arlette 10x one Quad (Cinema size): Hayes Karen Lewis lucie Raffaelli Marjorie Worth Kerry Holden Nathan Davrondavron PayneJon DarneauMarie-Pierre Kohli Jayne Reavy Sheila Winner Philharmonia Orchestra concert part of Messiaen Celebrations: Cassidy Joanne Please note that Games will not be available until the end of February 2008. They will then be despatched by post.

Miscellaneous
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