 FRENCH DVDS
| AMELIE/LE
FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMÉLIE POULAIN (15) 2001 FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE
£19.99
Oscar
nominated film about a young French girl whose sole purpose of life is to help
others.
Level: AS, A2, Dip 3, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies, Modern Foreign Languages
Jane Critchley online language guide to Amelie - CLICK HERE
Contains among many files - Teacher Guide, Amelie and General Film Vocabulary,Lesson Starters, Synopsis, Adjectives, Adjectives Exercises, WJEC Mark Scheme plus much more. Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE Amelie French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE
Amelie Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | ANGEL A (15) 2005 FRANCE BESSON, LUC £19.99
Looking to escape his past Andre accepts the help of the mysterious
Angela and sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life
forever. BLU RAY £24.99
Study guide by Sarah Leahy - CLICK HERE | | ASTÉRIX & OBÉLIX: MISSION CLÉOPÂTRE (PG) 2002 FRANCE CHABAT, A. £19.99
Second film in this popular French series staring Gerard Depardieu.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE |
| AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (PG) 1987 FRANCE MALLE,
LOUIS £19.99
| | AUBERGE
ESPAGNOLE/POT LUCK (15) FRANCE 2002 KLAPISCH, CEDRIC
£19.99 Xavier moves into a Barcelona flat with a group of students
on the European Erasmus program and soon finds himself thrust into
a cultural melting pot.
Study guide by Sarah Leahy - CLICK HERE
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE |
| LES AVENTURES EXTRAORDINAIRES D'ADÈLE
BLANC-SEC/THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC (12) 2010 FRANCE BESSON, LUC £17.99
Luc
Besson writes and directs this comic fantasy adventure adapted from Jacques
Tardi's graphic novels of the 1970s. Set in the early 20th century, the film
tells the colourful tale of popular novelist and adventuress Adele Blanc-Sec
(Louise Bourgoin), who deals in her own inimitable style with would-be suitors,
the police, monsters and various other diversions as she attempts to save a mad
scientist who has brought a pterodactyl to life so that he can re-animate an
Egyptian mummy and use its ancient magic to revive Adele's sister, who has been
in a coma for four years following a bizarre tennis accident
Level: AS, A2, Dip 3, GCSE, Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies
Study Guide - CLICK HERE
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | BANDE A PART (PG) 1964
FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC. £19.99
| | | LA BATAILLE D'ALGER/BATTLE OF ALGIERS (15) 1965 FRANCE PONTECORVO, GILLO £19.99
Dramatic, pseudo-documentary reconstruction of the rise of the
nationalist movement in Algiers between 1954 and 1957. A benchmarks of
1960s political radicalism.
Study Guide in Spanish - CLICK HERE
| | LE BOSSU (15) 1998 FRANCE DE BROCA, PHILEPPEM £12.99
Rip-roaring romp based on the Feval novel.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (PG) 1959 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC £19.99
Godard’s first film is now seen as the key film in the French new wave.
À Bout De Souffle Teachers' Notes - CLICK HERE
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | BRODEUSES/A COMMON THREAD(12) 2004
FRANCE FAUCHER, ÉLÉONORE £19.99 Exquisite debut
film by Faucher, about two women’s friendship across the generations and the
overcoming of sorrow and adversity through a common bond.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
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| CACHÉ/HIDDEN (15)
2005 FRANCE HANEKE, MICHAEL £19.99 Compelling psychological
thriller.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: French, English, Film Studies, Media Studies
Study Guide to the film - CLICK HERE |
| LES CHORISTES (12) 2004 FRANCE BARRATIER,
CHRISTOPHE £19.99
Set in 1949, a music teacher is hired as
supervisor in a strict boarding school for troubled children
and changes their lives through music.
Level: AS, A2 Subjects: Drama, French, Music
Jane Critchley online language guide to Les Choristes - CLICK HERE
Contains among many files - Teacher Guide, Amelie and General Film Vocabulary,Lesson Starters, Synopsis, Adjectives, Adjectives Exercises, WJEC Mark Scheme plus much more.
Student Pack - CLICK HERE
Teachers' Pack - CLICK HERE
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | CODE INCONNU: RÉCIT INCOMPLET DE DIVERS VOYAGES/CODE UNKNOWN (15) 2000 FRANCE HANEKE, MICHAEL £19.99
A Beggar catches a crumpled paper bag. The contents connects the character in the film,
making a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers in society
French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | COMME UNE
IMAGE/LOOK AT ME (12) 2004 FRANCE JAOUI, AGNES £19.99 Sophisticated
family drama.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | DE BATTRE MON COEUR
S'EST ARRÊTÉ/BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (15) 2005 FRANCE AUDIARD, JACQUES £22.99
Romain Duris gives an extraordinarily intense
performance as a young man torn between a life of crime and music.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | LE DERNIER MÉTRO/LAST METRO (PG) FRANCE 1980 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £19.99 The
year is 1942, and Paris is occupied by German forces. Jewish theatre
owner Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) has handed over the control of his
theatre to his actress wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) while he hides
out in the cellar, hoping to avoid capture by the Nazis. During
rehearsals for the next production, the presence of a womanising actor
(Gerard Depardieu) and a Nazi-sympathising journalist cause many
difficulties for Marion.
Eventually, she is forced to decide
between her loyalty to her husband and her love for her countrymen, and
acts out her solution in the production she has been rehearsing.
French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | A DOUBLE TOUR (PG) 1959 FRANCE CHABROL,
CLAUDE £15.99 Murder mystery based on a novel by Stanley
Ellin.
Study Guide to the film - CLICK HERE | | ELLE S'APPELAIT SARAH/SARAH’S KEY (12) 2010 FRANCE PAQUET-BRENNER, GILLES £17.99
A Jewish girl's story opens wounds from France's wartime past. Living
in Paris while her architect husband Bertrand (Frederic Pierrot)
restores his family's apartment block, writer Julia Jarmond (Kristin
Scott Thomas) stumbles across the wartime history of the block's
original Jewish owners, who were arrested by the Vichy government as
part of the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942 and forced to sell
their property. As the story unfolds, Julia becomes increasingly haunted
by the fate of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Melusine Mayance), who,
after being detained, escapes in a desperate attempt to return to the
block where she has secretly hidden her younger brother..
Film Guide in French - CLICK HERE |
| ETRE ET AVOIR (E) 2002 FRANCE PHILIBERT, NICOLAS £19.99 Documentary that follows a year in the life of a French village school.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies
French language Study Guide - CLICK HERE
French Guide - CLICK HERE
Study Guide to the film - CLICK HERE
French language Study Guide - CLICK HERE |
| ENTRE LES
MURS/CLASS (15) 2008 FRANCE CANTET, LAURENT
£17.99 Absorbing Palme d'Or winning journey into a multicultural high
school in Paris over the course of a school year.
Level: AS, A2, Dip 1, Dip 2, Dip 3, Subjects: GCSE Citizen
Interview with Laurent Cantet and François Bégaudeau - CLICK HERE
Online Resource Covering - Character & Identity Debate & Conflict, Education & Film Studies - CLICK HERE
Study Guide to the film - CLICK HERE
French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | FAUTEUILS D'ORCHESTRE/ORCHESTRA SEATS(12) 2006 FRANCE THOMPSON, DANIÈLE £17.99
Drama about the residents of the theatre district and their dreams of
fortune and fame as seen through the eyes of an impressionable
countrygirl waitress in a local café.
Study Guide written by Hélène Beaugy - CLICK HERE | | A LA FOLIE PAS DU
TOUT/HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME
NOT (12) 2001 FRANCE COLOMBANI, L.
£19.99 Taut tale of passion and obsession.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE/GLEANERS AND
I (15) 2000
FRANCE VARDA, AGNÈS £15.99 Documentary the lives of those
who live 'off the grid' in France. Gleaning is the act of gathering the
leftovers from a harvest after the main, profitable crop has been taken away by
the farmer. As well as examining the lives of actual gleaners, who subsist from
the remnants of modern agriculture, Varda extends the metaphor to enquire about
those who live by more modern forms of
gleaning.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | LA GRANDE
VADROUILLE (PG) 1966 FRANCE OURY, GERARD £15.99 French
wartime comedy farce.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | LA HAINE (15) 1995 FRANCE KASSOVITZ, MATHIEU £19.99 Award winning film about a day on a tough Paris housing estate for three teenagers.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 , Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
Study Guide - CLICK HERE
Study Guide for students of AS/A2 French - CLICK HERE |
| HARRY, UN AMI QUI VOUS VEUT DU BIEN/HARRY, HE’S HERE TO HELP (15) 2000 FRANCE MOLL, DOMINIK £19.99 Nail biting dark comedy thriller.
Michel (Laurent Lucas) and Claire (Mathilde Seigner) have just departed
on their summer holiday when they stop off at a service station and
bump into Michel's old schoolmate Harry (Sergi Lopez). The couple think
it's just a chance meeting, but they begin to worry when Harry turns up
at their holiday home and begins doing everything he can to ingratiate
himself into their lives. Is Harry just keen to make new friends or does
he possess more sinister motives?
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | LE HAVRE (PG) 2011 FRANCE KAURISMÄKI, AKI £15.99 Comedy drama depicting the friendship between an illegal child immigrant and an elderly Frenchman.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies, Citizenship,
Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | LE HÉRISSON/THE HEDGEHOG (12) 2009 FRANCE ACHACHE,
MONA £17.99 Light-hearted drama following the bond that develops
between three social outcasts who share the same residential
house.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | L'HISTOIRE D'ADÈLE H/STORY OF ADELE H (12) 1975 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £15.99
Francois
Truffaut's film is based on a true story about desire, devotion and
madness. Oscar-nominated Isabellel Adjani stars as Adele, the daughter
of Victor Hugo, who follows her womanising lover across the Atlantic in
order to resume their affair.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | LES HOMMES LIBRES/FREE MEN (12) 2011 FRANCE FERROUKHI, ISMAEL £15.99 World
War Two drama set in German-occupied Paris in 1942. Tahar Rahim stars
as Younes, a young, unemployed, Algerian immigrant who is inspired to become a freedom fighter after forming an unexpected friendship with Jewish singer Salim Halali (Mahmud Shalaby).
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies
Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | LE HUSSARD SUR LE TOIT/HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF
(15) 1995 FRANCE RAPPENEAU, J.P. £19.99
Historical
drama by the director of ‘Cryano de Bergerac’. Stars Juliette
Binoche.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
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| JOYEUX NOEL (12) 2005 FRANCE CARION, C. IN FRENCH/GERMAN & ENGLISH £19.99
Set
in World War One on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western
Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various
front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No
Man’s Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting
brotherhood.
Joyeux Noêl - Notes - CLICK HERE
Joyeux Noêl - Themes & Motifs Worksheet - CLICK HERE
Joyeux Noêl - Vocabulaire - CLICK HERE
Joyeux Noêl - Match Quotes - CLICK HERE
| | MA VIE EN ROSE (12) 1997 FRANCE BERLINER, ALAIN £19.99 A
big screen treatment for one of France's most revered singers, Edith
Piaf. From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Piaf's life
was a battle to sing and survive. Raised in poverty, Edith's unique
voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest
names of the period - Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour,
Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her a star all around
the world.
French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | MÊME PAS MORT/TOMBOY (U) 2007 FRANCE SCIAMMA,
CÉLINE £16.99 10-year-old tomboy Laure (Zoé Héran) moves to a
different neighbourhood with her family, Laure is mistaken for a boy by Lisa
(Jeanne Disson) and decides to accept this new identity under the name of
Michaël. She spends a summer with Lisa, playing games and experiencing first
kisses, but it is only a matter of time before the truth
emerges.
Level: S4-S6 Subjects: French, Health & Wellbeing
Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | MICMACS (12) 2009 FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE £15.99
Bazil, a video shop assistant who ends up with a bullet permanently
lodged inside his brain after a gangland shootout takes on two arms
manufacturers, one of whom made the bullet that so nearly cost him his
life.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | MOLIÈRE (PG) 2007 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT £19.99 Period
drama brings to life the youth of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who would
later become known to the world as Moliere, but at the age of 22 he was
only a struggling actor.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | MON PERE CE HEROS (PG) FRANCE 1991 LAUZIER, GERARD £14.99 Charming comedy staring Gerard Depardieu.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | MONSIEUR HIRE (15) FRANCE 1989 LECONTE, PATRICE £19.99 A
young girl is found murdered and all the clues lead to the reclusive
Monsieur Hire, a loner and not popular with his neighbours who think him
strange.
French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | NE LE DIS À PERSONNE/TELL NO ONE (15) 2006 FRANCE CANET, GUILLAUME £19.99 Conspiracy theory thriller from actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies
Study Guide - CLICK HERE |
| PERSEPOLIS (15) FRANCE 2007 SATRAPI,M /PARONNAUD, V £17.99
Based on the graphic novel about her own experiences writer and
director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a young girl in
Iran during the Islamic Revolution, when people¹s hopes were dashed as
fundamentalists took power. Contains both French and English version.
BLU RAY - £24.99
Level:AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Art & Design, Citizenship, English, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politic
Persepolis online resource - CLICK HERE
Teachers' notes - CLICK HERE
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE | | POTICHE (15) 2010 FRANCE OZON,
FRANÇOIS £17.99
French comedy starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.
Suzanne (Deneuve) is the trophy wife of ruthless umbrella tycoon Robert
Pujol (Fabrice Luchini). When Robert's workers go on strike and take him
hostage, Suzanne takes over the running of the factory and - with the
help of her former lover, communist union leader Maurice Babin
(Depardieu) - quickly proves herself to be a far more effective manager
than her husband.
Study Guide written by Hélène Beaugy - CLICK HERE | | LE PREMIER JOUR DU RESTE DE TA VIE/THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR
LIFE
(15) FRANCE 2008 BEZANCON, REMI £15.99 The pleasure and pain
of familial relationships come under the microscope in this cross-generational
film.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS/LES MISTONS (PG) 1959 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £19.99
Francois
Truffaut's semi-autobiographical first feature stars Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Antoine Doinel, an unruly young Parisian whose unhappiness leads him
into trouble. Frequently running away from school and home, Antoine
spends much of his time playing with his friends on the streets of the
city; but events take a more serious turn when the theft of a typewriter
lands him in trouble with the police.
Study Guide - CLICK HERE
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
Film Guide in French Written by Alice Mennesson - CLICK HERE |
| LA RAFLE/ROUND UP (15) 2010
FRANCE BOSCJ, ROSE £17.99 Fact
based drama told from the perspective of 11-year Jo Weismann. In July
1942, under directions of the Nazis, the French police rounding up
thousands of Jewish men, women and children taking them to the now
notorious Vel' d'Hiv stadium, awaiting transporting to extermination
camps in Poland BLU RAY -
£16.99
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, KS3, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies
La Rafle Resource Guide - CLICK HERE
Activities for S4-S5 pupils - CLICK HERE
Answers for S4-S5 (for teachers) - CLICK HERE
Activities for S6 pupils - CLICK HERE
Answers for S6 (for teachers) - CLICK HERE | | RESSOURCES HUMAINES/HUMAN RESOURCES
(15) FRANCE 1999 CANTET, LAURENT £19.99 Business school
graduate, returns to his provincial hometown totake a management position in the
factory where his father has been working for 30 years.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | LA RONDE (PG) FRANCE 1950 OPHULS, MAX £19.99 A circular tale of love and seduction based on the Arthur Schnitzler work.
Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON/DIVING BELL AND
THE BUTTERFLY (12) 2007 FRANCE SCHNABEL, J.
£19.99 Based on the best-selling novel, the film tells
the story of Bauby, a 42 year old paralysed man. Trapped in what he saw as a
‘Diving Bell’, a prison from which he was unable to escape, Bauby’s only
lifeline became the temporary release, or ‘Butterfly’, of his memories and
imagination.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies
Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | TANGUY (15) 2001 FRANCE CHATILIEZ, ETIENNE £19.99 What do you do when your 28 year old son won’t leave home.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | THERESE RAQUIN (PG) 1953 FRANCE CARNE, MARCEL £17.99 Marcel
Carne transposes Zola's dark tale of ennui and treachery to the
post-WWII era. Simone Signoret stars in the title role as Therese, a
young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille
(Jacques Duby) and living with him in the home of his paralysed mother
(Jean Sylvere). When she meets an acquaintance of Camille's, strapping
truck driver Laurent (Raf Vallone), the two begin a secret affair - but
jealousy and anger lead to tragic consequences for all three.
French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE
| | TOTO LE HÉROS/TOTO THE HERO (12) 1960 FRANCE BECKER, JACQUES £17.99 Based
on the novel by former convict Jose Giovanni, Le Trou tells the true
story of a group of inmates’ escape from a prison in Paris.
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
| | TROIS COULEURS: BLEU/THREE COLOURS BLUE (15) 1993 FRANCE KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF £19.99 Juliette
Binoche plays a woman who loses her husband, a great composer, in a
car crash. She tries to build a new life, but a journalist suspects
she is the composer of her husbands music.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies
Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | UNE VIE DE CHAT/A CAT IN PARIS/ (PG) 2010 FRANCE FELICIOLI, J.P/GAGNOL, A £12.99 French animated crime thriller spoof.
Teachers Resource Guide - CLICK HERE | | WELCOME (15) FRANCE 2009 LIORET,
PHILIPPE £17.99 French drama chronicling the relationship
between an illegal Kurdish immigrant from Iraq, who plans to swim to
Britain from Calais and a French swimming instructor.
Study Guide - CLICK HERE
French Language Study Guide - CLICK HERE | | | | | |
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