New Wave classics and a few huge French motion pictures from the previous yr function in Paris-based cinema membership Lost in Frenchlation’s new yr choices.
Lost in Frenchlation is a Paris-based membership that runs screenings of French movies — each new releases and timeless classics — with English subtitles, to be able to permit language learners to understand the choices of French cinema.
Here’s what’s on in January 2026.
Friday, January 2nd
Vie Privée (A Private Life)
Where? Balzac 1 Rue Balzac Paris.
When? Drinks from 7pm, screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €12. You can purchase them on-line right here.
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars as an American psychologist in Paris whose completely ordered life is thrown into chaos when affected person Virginie Efira dies abruptly. Torn between guilt and the suspicion that it is perhaps homicide, she turns to ex-husband Daniel Auteil to search out out what occurred. Rebecca Zlotowski’s darkish comedy drama wowed audiences in Cannes at its premiere earlier this yr.
Sunday, January 4th
Jules et Jim
Where? Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris.
When? A tea bar is open from 7pm (deliver your personal cups, if you’d like!), screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €9.50. You can purchase them on-line right here.
Francois Truffaut’s mesmerising New Wave pre-World War One love triangle story of diffident name-inappropriate Austrian scholar Jules (Oskar Werner), worldly and equally name-inappropriate French journalist Jim (Henri Serre), and the pleasant, harmful and iconoclastic power of nature that’s Catherine (an astonishing Jeanne Moreau).
Friday, January ninth
Love me Tender
Where? L’Entrepôt 7 rue Francis de Pressensé Paris, 75014.
When? Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm, adopted by Q&A with director Anna Cazenave Cambet.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €9.50. You can purchase them on-line right here.
Anna Cazenave Cambet’s transferring drama, based mostly on the semi-autobiographical novel by Constance Debré, follows a lawyer battling for custody of her son from her estranged associate.
Sunday, January eleventh
Louise
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple, Paris.
When? Drinks at 6pm and screening at 7pm, adopted by Q&A with director Nicolas Keitel.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €9.50. You can purchase them on-line right here.
A Midnight in Paris strolling tour begins at 3.30pm. Tickets out there right here.
Fifteen years after she ran away from house as a teen, a lady seeks to reconnect together with her household and rebuild the ashes of her childhood in debut function director Nicolas Keitel’s refined drama.
Tuesday, January thirteenth
Jacquot de Nantes
Where? L’Epée de Bois 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris.
When? Drinks at Tournbride bar from 7pm, screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €9.50. You can purchase them on-line right here.
Agnès Varda’s coming-of-age docudrama paints a portrait of the making of an artist by recreating the early lifetime of her husband, Jacques Demy, in Occupied France and his curiosity within the varied crafts related to filmmaking, corresponding to casting, set design, animation and lighting. Fictional scenes set in wartime Nantes are notable for his or her transient documentary interludes that includes Demy.
Thursday, January fifteenth
L’Étranger (The Outsider)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Drinks at Tournbride bar from 7pm, screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €9.50. You can purchase them on-line right here.
Algiers, 1938. Following the loss of life of his mom, an emotionally repressed thirty-something (Benjamin Voisin) is dragged into shady dealings, culminating in tragedy on a seaside beneath the blazing solar, in François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel.
Monday, January nineteenth
Domicile Conjugal (Bed and Board)
Where? Filmothèque 9 Rue Champollion Paris.
When? Drinks at 6.30pm and screening at 7.30pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €10. You can purchase them on-line right here
A Truffaut Movie strolling tour begins at 4pm. Tickets out there right here.
The fourth of Truffaut’s 5 comedy dramas following the life and instances of fictional creation Antoine Doinel (performed by Jean-Pierre Léaud), whose lifetime of bourgeois home boredom is upended when he has a fling with a Japanese lady that he rapidly regrets.
Thursday, January twenty second
La Condition (The Condition)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm, adopted by a Q&A with director Jérôme Bonnell
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €9.50. You can purchase them on-line right here
A measured and intimate portrait of life above and beneath stairs in early Twentieth-century France, specializing in the unstated tensions between a bored housewife and her maid and explores how every makes an attempt to interrupt free from a inflexible social framework.
Thursday, January twenty ninth
Les Enfants Vont Bien (Out of Love)
Where? Arlequin 76 rue de rennes Paris, 75006.
When? Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm + Q&A with director Nathan Ambrosioni
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5 to €9.50. You can purchase them on-line right here
A girl is compelled to maintain her niece and nephew after their mom disappears in Nathan Ambrosioni’s delicate and transferring drama.
