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Le Hérisson and La Petite Chambre among highlights of French Film Festival 2010

Le Hérisson and La Petite Chambre among highlights of French Film Festival 2010

Pierre Etaix also presents his own Le Grand Amour

2 Nov 2010

France has one of the most prolific film cultures in the world yet for every A Prophet, Heartbreaker and Carlos there are countless fine films that never see the inside of a British cinema. The raison d’etre for the annual French Film Festival (FFF) is…

Autumn highlights: Film seasons

Take One Action, Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival and Africa in Motion set for 2010

23 Sep 2010

Festival-ed out post Edinburgh? If you’re a red carpet junkie, worry not, 2010 still has plenty to offer the discerning cineaste. But forget Venice, Toronto and London, what about film festivals a bit closer to home? The Scottish arts calendar is…

Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache

16 Nov 2009

In an interview given on the eve of the 26th Cannes Film Festival in May 1973, Jean Eustache voiced his frustration at the reception of his work and his troubled relationship with the film industry in France. ‘Although my films have always been…

Jacques Tati Retrospective part of French Film Festival 2009

Jacques Tati - The Height of Comic Discretion

Retrospective part of French Film Festival 2009

4 Nov 2009

Nobody put it better than the French critic André Bazin when describing Jacques Tati thus: “he himself seems unfinished; one might speak of his ‘discretion of being’”. Born in 1907, Tati was certainly educationally incomplete. David Bellos in his…

French Film Festival

French Film Festival

4 Nov 2009

Undoubtedly the biggest and strongest line up for a while, this year’s FFF UK selection is a feast of ancient and modern for Francophiles and cineastes alike. New film highlights include Anne Coco Before Chanel Fontaine’s comedy thriller The Girl from…

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