Quadriplegic rich aristocrat is cared for by young Senegalese émigré. Despite their very different backgrounds and outlooks on life, the two men quickly form a strong bond, teaching each other important life lessons about acceptance, respect and the true meaning of friendship in the process.

  Guide to the scenes, characters and themes in Intouchables (Untouchables), enabling students to understand the historical and social context of the film and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.

Author: Helene Beaugy, Paperback, 96 pages, Publisher: Hodder Education, ISBN: 9781510435667, Published: 28 Sep 2018

 Based on a cult play, the film is set in the offices of a suicide helpline on Christmas Eve. The farce follows a group of troubled people who contact the helpline.

 Lou Bertignac, who has an IQ of 160,  meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets, and Lou persuades her parents to let No live with them. No's presence forces Lou and her parents to finally face the sadness that has enveloped the family.

  Livre de Poche  ISBN: 9782253124801  - £9.60

   Bloomsbury  ISBN: 9780747599647 - £8.99 

  Study guide  NO ET MOI.

  OUP  ISBN: 9780198418351   2018  -  £9.50

Adaptation of the Ruth Rendell best-seller.

    FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM GUIDE

    Surrealist satire takes on targets as diverse as South American politics, the upper class and religion. 

  Molière  farce about the superficial characteristics of Parisian nobility.

  Les Classiques Bordas ISBN:  9782047356050 £5.95

  Folio Classique ISBN: 9782070450008 £2.80

   Dover Publications Inc.  ISBN: 9780486404387 £12.99

    Based on the Joseph Kessel novel the film is one of the greatest and the most authentic film  portrayals of the French Resistance.

Acclaimed true-life tale of French Resistance sympathisers working in the movies during World War Two.

    FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE

 Set in the winter of 1943,  Janek with the partisans in a Polish forests and is in love with  Zosia,, who has been sleeping with the Germans to get food;

  Folio ISBN:  9782070362035 £9.95

    Powerful drama based on the play by Wajdi Mouawad. When their Lebanese-Canadian mother dies, twins Jeanne and Simon Marwan are left two sealed letters: one to be delivered to a brother the twins did not know they had, and the other to their father, whom they had presumed dead. To deliver the letters the twins travel to Lebanon, where the traumatic and tumultuous past experiences of their mother are gradually revealed.

 The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions.

 The book is a collection of letters between Sebbar and Nancy Huston, writing about their 

shared experience of exile from a feminine and feminist perspective.

   J'ai lu  ISBN: 9782290053942  £6.95

   Academy Award-winning drama about a  couple, Anne and George,  in their 80s. Anne is left wheelchair-bound and has lost her will to live. George tries to remind her of the beauty and worth of life itself and the love that they share for each other.

  Paris in the late 1950s, young Elise finds her relationship with a North African immigrant arouses hostility and a period of mounting social and political tension.

   Folio  ISBN: 9782070369393  £9.95

  Routledge  ISBN: 9780415050937 £23.95 (Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context)

 Two dead people come back to earth for 24 hours

  Folio  ISBN: 9782070394821  £9.25

   Political thriller set in Greece under the military dictatorship.

  It is set against the backdrop of a demonstration in Paris in 1961, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Algerians at the hands of the police. In Daeninckx?s story, Roger Thiraud, a young history teacher, is also mysteriously killed during this demonstration. 

Twenty years later, Bernard, his son, is murdered in Toulouse while on holiday with his girlfriend. To find the connection between the murders, Daeninckx?s hero Inspector Cadin must delve into the secret history and devastating compromises of wartime politics.

  Folio Policier  ISBN: 9782070785582  £8.95

  Profile Books Ltd ISBN:   9781852427955  £9.99

 Deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust.

  Folio ISBN: 9782070336487  £11.50

  Dedalus Ltd ISBN:  9781903517628  £9.99

 Engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover.

   Les Petits Classiques Larousse  ISBN: 97820358590821  £4.35

  OUP ISBN:   9780199539970  £9.90

The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

  PENGUIN  ISBN:    9780140441338  £9.90

 ';A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus'sThe Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.'The New Yorker

   Fiches de lectures et analyses Le petit littéraire  ISBN: 9782806265531 £7.50

  Other Press ISBN:  9781590517512    £14.95

  Valet Jacques and his master are on a journey and as they travel the master recounts the story of his loves, but are continually interrupted by other characters 

   La Bibliothèque GallimardISBN: 9782070305841  £6.85

    OUP ISBN:  9780199537952  £9.95

 The story concerns the life of a woman, Anne Desbaresdes, and her varying relationships with her child, the piano teacher.

 Minuit "Double" ISBN: 9782707303141  £8.30

    Calder Publications Ltd ISBN: 9780714548500  £9.95

  Poet Alceste despairs of mankind’s hypocrisy and falseness.

   Les Petits Classiques Larousse  ISBN: 9782035861559  £4.35

   Garnier-flammarion SBN: 9782081294011 £3.50

   THE MISANTHROPE, TARTUFFE, AND OTHER PLAYS OUP ISBN: 9780199540181  £9.90

THE MISANTHROPE (Methuen Drama)  -  Bloomsbury  ISBN:  9781472510716  £10.99

THE MISANTHROPE -Nick Hern Books  ISBN:     9781854597878  £4.99

 In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. In a column the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, appeal for her whereabouts. The authors set out to find what happen to Dora in Nazi occupied France. 

  Folio ISBN: 782070408481 £9.45

  La Bibliothèque Gallimard ISBN: 9782070315055 £10.95

  Vintage Publishing ISBN:  9781846553615  £9.99

  DORA BRUDER- California UP ISBN:  9780520218789 £14.95

  French play set in 16th-century Florence.

  Les Petits Classiques Larousse ISBN: 9782035867902 £5.10

  Bloomsbury Publishing PLC  ISBN:   9781853995163  £16.99

 Five-act tragic play set in Roman times.

 Les Petits Classiques Larousse ISBN: 9782035861580 £4.50

 Garnier-Flammarion ISBN: 9782081387713 £4.10

  OUP ISBN:  9780199555994  £9.99

 Poet and soldier Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size and believes she will never see past it to return his feelings. So when he discovers that the handsome but tongue-tied Christian is also pining for Roxane, generous Cyrano offers to help by writing exquisite declarations of love for the young man to woo her with.

 Les Petits Classiques Larousse ISBN: 9782035861580 £4.50

 Garnier-Flammarion ISBN: 9782081387713 £4.10

   OUP ISBN:  9780199539239  £7.99

   Penguin ISBN: 9780140449686  £8.99

   Nick Hern Books ISBN: 9781854591173 ( Anthony Burgess translation)  £12.99

     Gerard Depardieu stars in this Oscar nominated film. 

              

 A surreal world where animals and inanimate objects reflect the emotions of humans

  Profil d'une oeuvre  ISBN: 9782218737732 £6.70

  Quartet Books ISBN:   9780704300620 - REPRINTING

   Starring Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou.