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The documentary begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town’s mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with...
A 2-disc homage to the enigmatic poet, actor, director, playwright, philosopher, visionary, madman Antonin Artaud - one of the most influential figures of 20th century art, theatre and cinema. MY LIFE AND...
A disarmingly shameless French hommage to Shakespeare in Love, Laurent Tirard’s elegant and witty seventeenth-century comedy constructs a similar romantic contrivance around alleged events from the life of...
The film tells the remarkable tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the world-renowned editor of French ELLE magazine, who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable ‘locked in’...
Television adaptation by Heidi Thomas of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Frances O’Connor. The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes bored. She embarks...
The protagonists in this film are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric institute in France. Each summer they perform a play on a stage set in the grounds of the chateau. The film charts the...
A collaboration between BBC Active and the University of Cambridge. Aimed at students in further and higher education institutions and at business and professional people who need to refresh or learn French,...
Short film about French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, with a commentary by Delphine Seyrig, and featuring photographs and archive footage.
1975 television adaptation by Rodney Bennett of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Francesca Annis and Tom Conti. Trapped on a provincial French farm with her widowed father, Emma dreams of leading a...
A dramatised film based on the writing of Francois Mitterand’s memoirs, providing a glimpse of his life, times and legacy. The old man is dying from prostate cancer and knows he doesn’t have much time to...
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