France In London .com - Newsletter 92: London Rocks

09/05/2024

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France In London, The essential guide for everything French in London, is happy to send you its newsletter number 92.


French Presidential Elections
	And the winner is... 01/01/1970
	Au Royaume Uni, Nicolas Sarkozy prend la tête avec 53,3% des sufrages contre 46,7% pour Ségolène Royal. Il semblerait que le Royaume Uni avec ses 53,268 inscrits soit très représentatif de la France bien qu'il n'y ait eu seulement que 30,6% des inscrits qui aient participés au scrutin. More information


Books
	Book selection 01/05/2007
	- Le fils du Dragon, Laurent Maréchaux, Dilettante - Bonne nuit doux prince, Pierre Charras, Mercure de France - L'Angleterre ferme à cinq heures, Jacques- A Bertrand, Edition Julliard - Tournée d'automne, Jacques Poulin, Actes Sud More information

Book Signing
	Les enfants de la liberté 19/05/2024
	Marc Levy will be signing is new novel at the French Bookshop on 19th May. More information

Film
	My Best Friend 11/05/2024
	The trio Daniel Auteuil, Danny Boon and Patrice Leconte would be likely to predict one of the funniest comedies of the year but this is not to be. My best friend goes deep into the true meaning of friendship, one of Leconte's favourite subjects. Danny Boon is exceptionally moving. Not to be missed. More information

	Dans Paris 01/01/1970
	One of the popular hits in Cannes this year, Dans Paris finds up-and-coming auteur Christophe Honoré letting his hair down after his sombre, challenging Georges Bataille adaptation Ma Mère. A thoughtful but lightly executed, often ebullient, family drama, Dans Paris boasts engaging performances all around, especially from charismatic leads - and heartthrobs du jour - Romain Duris and Louis Garrel, inventively cast against type. More information

DVD release!
	Le Sang d'un poete et le Testament d'Orphée 01/01/1970
	Le Sang d'un poete In an artist’s studio, an unfinished statue comes to life. The lips of its androgynous face move, pressing a kiss to the artist’s hand. At the statue’s demand, he plunges it into a mirror. Le Testament d'Orphée Jean Cocteau gave the cinema a truly abstract piece of work as his swansong, in which the mind of a poet (played by Cocteau himself) takes control of reality, twisting and re-moulding it until it bears not the slightest resemblance to reality as we know it in real life. The Box: £24.99 RPR More information

	Mon Pere Ce Heros 01/01/1970
	Depardieu is Andre, an estranged father who takes his now teenaged daughter Veronique on a holiday. While they are away Veronique begins to act strangely and on spying on her Andre finds that she is experiencing her first love and has created a convoluted story in which she has cast Andre as her much older lover. Mon Pere Ce Heros is a witty, tender and heart-warming story of love of all kinds. 2 DVDs to be won More information

	Quai des Brumes 01/01/1970
	Jean (Jean Gabin), a deserter, arrives in Le Havre and looks for a shelter before planning his escape from French territory. Housed in a shed on the harbour at the end of the docks, he meets an eccentric painter (Michel Simon), a mysterious and beautiful girl called Nelly (Michèle Morgan) and a small dog… all of whom will shape his destiny in one tragic way or another. More information

	Le Jour se lève 01/01/1970