• Quai des Brumes
    Quai des Brumes
    Film

    Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows)

    One of the most richly atmospheric films ever made, Marcel Carné’s, darkly seductive thriller is an outstanding example of ‘Poetic Realism’, the Gallic precursor of American film noir . In the shadowy port of Le Havre, Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter on...

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  • Jacques a dit
    Jacques a dit
    Theatre

    Jacques a dit, a caustic French comedy, in French!

    Six childhood friends have been following their paths for the past few years. They have all just received from Jacques, a former member of their gang exiled in Bombay, a piece of a letter and a note asking them to meet on 22 May to put it back together and watch a video. While they speculate...

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  • BD and Comics Festival
    BD and Comics Festival
    BD and Comics Festival

    BD and Comics Passion Festival - 24-27 May

    If you are a fan of BD and comics, this is an event that you cannot miss. The second edition of the festival has been deisgned to be even more ambitious than last year's and will include thirty events over four days including talks, to live drawing sessions, films, workshops for kids and...

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The Source

Somewhere between North Africa and the Middle East, women go and fetch water form the source located in the mountain. They have been doing this forever and in all weathers. Leila, a newly married young woman, suggests to the other women to go on strike by refusing to make love with their husband. No more cuddles or sex as long as the men don;t build a system to bring the water to the village.


2 Days in New York

Marion (Delpy) has broken up with Jack (Two Days in Paris) and now lives in New York with their child. But when her family decides to come visit her, she's unaware that the different cultural...


Angel and Tony

Angèle, a beautiful young woman with a past, arrives in a small fishing harbor in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who finds himself attracted to her. Tony hires her as a...


Monsieur Lazhar

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own...


Café de Flore

Cafe de Flore is a love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel...


Mozart's Sister

A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Nannerl and Mozart are introduced to all the...


Le Havre

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.


Elles

Anne (Juliette Binoche), a well-off, Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about student prostitution. Her meetings with two fiercely independent...


Delicacy

The Delicacy, a film based on David Foenkinos's novel, 'La Délicatesse', will be released on 13 April in London. The novel was an enormous success in France and sold more than 700,000 copies and...


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....


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...


Beloved

From Paris in the 60s to 21st century London, Madeleine and her daughter Vera waltz in and out of the lives of the men they love...


Gigi

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Gaston, the scion of a wealthy...


The Human Beast

Lantier is a train engineer who falls madly in love with his superior's wife, Severine. When working one day, he witnesses them both murder their former employer. He decides not to say anything to...


La Traversée de Paris (Pig Across Paris)

La Traversée de Paris (The Trip Across Paris), is a French comedy drama film from 1956, directed by Claude Autant-Lara, written by Marcel Aymé, starring Jean Gabin, Bourvil and Louis de Funès.


Le Plaisir (House of Pleasure)

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier...


Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows)

A superb love story between Gabin, an army deserter, and Michèle Morgan, a young woman. Scripted by Jacques Prévert. One of the most richly atmospheric films ever made, Marcel Carné’s, darkly...


Le jour se lève

The apotheosis of « poetic realism » in a beautifully fatalistic tale of love and betrayal.



14 juillet back to categories

 FREE  Bastille Day - 14 July 2012

Reading Forbury historical park will be transformed into an enchanted French village following the theme of Mary Poppins jumping with her children at charge through the drawings of Bert The Pavement Artist into an enchanted and amusing world for children and adults, reinforcing the Anglo-French cultural ties, through the unique standing of Reading in Royal Berkshire, its artistic associations, plethora of activities, sports teams, talents, local and international...


Alan Braxe + Joakim @ The Nest, Dalston - This Friday!

On Friday 25th May, French superstars Joakim & Alan Braxe join their Friday night party! We have 20 tickets to giveaway for free!!

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.

Nuts Pub Crawl London

This is one of the best ways to meet people and party all together. They meet in the Kink Bar at 9pm (Wed-Sat) on Leicester Square, and get to know the best West End London Clubs.

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.


MOZART REQUIEM - LES FAURISTES CHAMBER CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA

Les Fauristes Chamber Choir and Orchestra are back with a great concert around Mozart. This time, they will be accompanied by three choirs brought from France with their conductor, Alain Charron (Chœur des Ecos - Paris, COGEN - Nantes et Alcantoriane - Niort). Four French choirs joined in London to sing Mozart, seventy choristers, twenty-five musicians, five soloists, conducted by Blandine de Raulin and Alain Charron, internationally reknown conductor.

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!

Patricia Kaas Live In London

After a fabulous career of more than 20 years, and international success, Patricia Kaas is still the dignified heiress of ‘La Môme’ to audiences across the World. Do not miss her when she comes to...


House of Tolerance out on DVD

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 unfold, with their rivalries, fears, joys and pain. The outside world never enters into this house, where the women remain locked in...


Exhibitions back to categories

Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed

Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed shows original documents from the artist’s recently discovered psychoanalytic writings, as well as drawings and sculptures, in the house of the founding father of psychoanalysis. Following its first showing in Latin America, the exhibition has been re-imagined for the unique setting of the Freud Museum London, which was discussed as a venue by Louise Bourgeois before her death. Appropriately, in the final home of Sigmund...


BD and Comics Passion Festival - 24-27 May

If you are a fan of BD and comics, this is an event that you cannot miss. The second edition of the festival has been deisgned to be even more ambitious than last year's and will include thirty events over four days including talks, to live drawing sessions, films, workshops for kids and exhibitions.


SUSAN BLACK SINGS PIAF

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


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

Jacques a dit, a caustic French comedy, in French!

Six childhood friends have been following their paths for the past few years. They have all just received from Jacques, a former member of their gang exiled in Bombay, a piece of a letter and a...

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...


CONCERT CANCELLED - LAURENT GERRA in London for the first time

Laurent Gerra's concert will no longer be taking place. It has now been cancelled.


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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