The French Film Festival UK is the only festival dedicated to French and Francophone cinema, embracing French and Francophone cinema in all its diversity, featuring a bumper programme bursting with variety and vitality. The 27th edition runs from 1 November to 15 December 2019, showing over 50 films in 35 towns and cities across the UK.
Nana | Nana (N/C 12A+)
Dir Jean Renoir | Scr Pierre Lestringuez | based on the Emile Zola novel | Music Baudime Jam | 1926 | France | 170 mins |
This special screening of Jean Renoir’s full-length silent film includes two magnificent set pieces – a horse race and an open-air ball – accompanied live by Prima Vista Quintet
A Paris Education | Mes Provinciales (N/C 15+)
Dir Jean-Paul Civeyrac | 2018 | France | 136 mins |
Pure love of cinema inhabits every frame of Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s sensitive and sophisticated portrait of Etienne, a provincial boy who moves to Paris to attend film school.
By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu (15)
Dir François Ozon | 2019 | 137 mins |
When Alexandre learns that the priest who assaulted him decades earlier at a scouts’ camp still works with young people, he tells his family what happened and seeks out other victims so that the Church will take action.
Happy Birthday | Fête de Famille (N/C 15+)
Dir Cédric Kahn | 2019 | France | 101 mins |
Family relations unravel to wonderfully excruciating comic and dramatic effect in this all-star ensemble piece from versatile French writer-director and here, co-star, Cédric Kahn.
Oh les filles ! | Haut les filles (N/C 12A+)
Dir François Armanet | 2019 | France | 79 mins |
Telling the untold story of French female rock stars from sixties pop to today’s gender-indifferent anthems.
The Salamander | La Salamandre (N/C 18+)
Dir Alain Tanner | 1971 | Switzerland, France | 123 mins |
Two self-proclaimed writers attempt to retell how a young woman shot her uncle.
Yves St Laurent: The Last Collections (N/C 15+)
Dir Olivier Meyrou | 2007 (release: 2018) | France | 73 mins |
Olivier Meyrou’s controversial yet exquisitely drawn portrait of France’s last great fashion designer, Yves Saint Laurent, has finally seen the light of day.
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