Our Classic selection includes Children of Paradise cited at Cannes as the greatest French film of all time, and a hark back to our origins with Madame Bovary starring Isabelle Huppert which we screened at our first festival in 1992, the same year it was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
This sensorial classics selection mixes music and drama, fashion and swashbuckling, theatre and, of course, romance…
Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse
West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Rigorously absurd contemporary film noir which presents every character, incident and situation known to the genre, but none of the customary explanations, motivations or consequences.
Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse
West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Rigorously absurd contemporary film noir which presents every character, incident and situation known to the genre, but none of the customary explanations, motivations or consequences.
Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse
West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Albert Topaze, a serious schoolteacher addicted to “rote” morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her.
Chichester - Cinema at New Park
New Park Rd, Chichester, United Kingdom
Rigorously absurd contemporary film noir which presents every character, incident and situation known to the genre, but none of the customary explanations, motivations or consequences.
London - Ciné Lumière
17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Marcel Ophüls four-hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest films ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah as an essential historical record in its own right.
London - Ciné Lumière
17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Marcel Ophüls four-hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest films ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah as an essential historical record in its own right.
London - Ciné Lumière
17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Marcel Ophüls four-hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest films ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah as an essential historical record in its own right.
London - Ciné Lumière
17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Marcel Ophüls four-hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest films ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah as an essential historical record in its own right.
Chichester - Cinema at New Park
New Park Rd, Chichester, United Kingdom
When the village baker refuses to bake bread because his unfaithful wife has left with a handsome shepherd, the individual drama takes on a collective dimension.
Bristol - Watershed
1 Canon's Rd, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
To mark the 25th anniversary of Dominik Moll’s Hitchcockian thriller, the Festival presents a restored copy of the film.
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