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…

Children of Paradise

Chichester - Cinema at New Park New Park Rd, Chichester, United Kingdom
Cited at the Cannes Film Festival as the greatest French film of all time, and shot in Nice and Paris during the Nazi occupation.

Madame Bovary

Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
In 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...

Dear Louise

Chichester - Cinema at New Park New Park Rd, Chichester, United Kingdom
Divorced and childless in her 40s, Louise becomes infatuated with 20-year-old Italian immigrant, Luigi. 4K restoration presented in Cannes Classics.

A Room in Town

London - Ciné Lumière 17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
A sung-through drama in the style of Umbrellas of Cherbourg that expresses life’s dark complications.

A Room in Town

London - Ciné Lumière 17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
A sung-through drama in the style of Umbrellas of Cherbourg that expresses life’s dark complications.

Dear Louise

London - Ciné Lumière 17 Queensberry Pl, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Divorced and childless in her 40s, Louise becomes infatuated with 20-year-old Italian immigrant, Luigi. 4K restoration presented in Cannes Classics.

Paris Frills

Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A Parisian dressmaker and serial seducer falls in love with his best friend's fiancée.

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