Madame Bovary
Chichester - Cinema at New Park New Park Rd, Chichester, United KingdomIn 19th-century France, Emma Bovary, a farmer’s daughter brought up in an elegant convent, marries a dull country doctor. Bored, she searches for something more...
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…
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Children of Paradise
Derby - QUAD The Market Place, Derby, United KingdomCited at the Cannes Film Festival as the greatest French film of all time, and shot in Nice and Paris during the Nazi occupation.
The Sleeping Car Murders
Edinburgh - Summerhall 1 Summerhall, Newington, Edinburgh, United KingdomA humorous, visually punchy first feature by Franco-Greek director Costa-Gavras, adapted from a novel by Sébastien Japrisot.
A Room in Town
Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom A sung-through drama in the style of Umbrellas of Cherbourg that expresses life’s dark complications.
Children of Paradise
Leicester - Phoenix 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomCited at the Cannes Film Festival as the greatest French film of all time, and shot in Nice and Paris during the Nazi occupation.
The Sicilian Clan (plus intro)
Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United KingdomRoger Santet (Alain Delon) is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the ageing Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin).
The Big Risk
Chichester - Cinema at New Park New Park Rd, Chichester, United KingdomAfter hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children despite a death sentence hanging over his head.
The Sicilian Clan
Chichester - Cinema at New Park New Park Rd, Chichester, United KingdomRoger Santet (Alain Delon) is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the ageing Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin).
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