Lost in Frenchlation — the cinema membership that screens French movies with English subtitles — celebrates two anniversaries, marks Christmas with a thought-provoking seasonal comedy, and dives into science fiction and historic reality.
Lost in Frenchlation is a Paris-based membership that runs screenings of French movies – each new releases and classics – with English subtitles, with the intention to permit language learners to understand the choices of French cinema.
Here’s what’s on in December.
Thursday, December third
La Petite Dernière (The Little Sister)
Where? L’Entrepôt 7 rue Francis de Pressensé, Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm, screening at 8pm.
At 4.30pm Ciné-Balade affords a guided Agnes Varda Movie Tour, via cinema historical past in Montparnasse, beginning at Gaîté Métro Exit (Line 13), 77 Avenue du Maine.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €5.50 to €9.50. You should buy them on-line.
Nadia Melliti gained the Best Actress award at Cannes for her efficiency on this coming-of-age drama as a younger homosexual girl battling the expectations of her Muslim household. Director Hafsia Herzi, who tailored Fatima Daas’s 2020 novel for the display, was nominated for the Palme D’Or and gained the Queer Palm.
Sunday, December seventh
L’Homme Qui Rétrécit (The Shrinking Man)
Where? Club de L’Étoile 14, rue Troyon, Paris, France.
When? Drinks at 6pm and Screening at 7pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €10 to €12. You should buy them on-line.
Oscar-winning actor Jean Dujardin and stunt-loving director Jan Kounen group up for this sparsely scripted replace of the Fifties cult sci-fi B-movie traditional. Dujardin is the working everyman compelled to show city adventurer when — for no explicable, or a minimum of defined, purpose — he out of the blue drops from 1.82m tall to only a few centimetres.
Thursday, December eleventh
Mommy
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Screening at 6.30pm, Free Drinks by La Parisienne & snacks from 9pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €7.50 to €12. You should buy them on-line.
Lost in Frenchlation celebrates its tenth anniversary with what British newspaper The Guardian mentioned was “outrageous – and good: the daytime cleaning soap from hell”.
Anne Dorval stars as a widowed single mom, elevating her violent son alone, who finds new hope when a mysterious neighbour inserts herself into their family.
Sunday, December 14th
Des Preuves d’Amour (Love Letters)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris.
When? Drinks at 6pm and Screening at 7pm, adopted by Q&A with director Alice Douard.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €7.50 to €12. You should buy them on-line.
Alice Douard drew on her personal experiences of changing into a mother or father to co-write and direct this light drama set in 2014 France a few couple — performed with quiet mixed brilliance by Monia Chokri and Ella Rumpf — awaiting the delivery of their first youngster.
Tuesday, December sixteenth
Le Père Noël est une Ordure (Santa Claus is a Stinker)
Where? L’Epée de Bois 100 Rue Mouffetard Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €7.90 to €9.90. You should buy them on-line.
The title could have you ever barely involved, however that is way more than your common festive movie fare. A pair of neurotics working for a suicide hotline on Christmas Eve get caught up in disaster when a pregnant girl, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite go to their workplaces.
Thursday, December 18th
L’Inconnu De La Grande Arche (The Great Arch)
Where? Arlequin 76 rue de rennes Paris.
When? Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm, adopted by Q&A with director Stéphane Demoustier.
At 4.30pm Ciné-Balade affords a guided Eiffel Tower Movie Tour, beginning at Trocadéro Métro Exit (Line 6 & 9), In entrance of Palais de Chaillot.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €9.50 to €12.20. You should buy them on-line.
You could bear in mind Danish actor Claes Bang from such movies as Robert Eggers’ The Northman, or Sharon Horgan’s TV collection Bad Sisters.
Here, he’s in charming kind because the unknown Danish Architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen battling French forms to get his formidable Grande Arche constructed at La Defense, with solely the assist of then-French president François Mitterand.
Sunday, December twenty first
Huit Femmes (Eight Women)
Where? Studio des Ursulines 10 rue des Ursulines Paris.
When? Screening at 7.30pm. A tea bar is accessible from 7pm for a scorching drink, and every cinema-goer is invited to carry their very own mug.
Tickets Prices to see the movie vary from €7.20 to €9.40. You should buy them on-line.
Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard in a screwball comedy homicide thriller set in an remoted, snowbound cottage one Christmas within the Fifties. What’s to not like?
Sunday, December twenty eighth
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) and Nouvelle Vague
Where? Jeu de Paume 1 place de la Concorde, Paris.
When? Drinks at Rose Bakery, inside Jeu de Paume, from 3.30pm, A Bout de Souffle at 4:30pm; drinks from 5.30pm, and Nouvelle Vague at 6.30pm.
At 1.30pm Ciné-Balade affords a guided French New Wave Movie Tour beginning in entrance of Le Rostand café in Place Edmond Rostand.
Tickets For A Bout de Souffle out there right here. And for Nouvelle Vague, click on right here.
To mark 130 years of cinema, Lost in Frenchlation has gone New Wave, with a double invoice of movies, beginning with Jean-Luc Godard’s traditional characteristic debut A Bout de Souffle, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, adopted by Richard Linklater’s behind-the-scenes homage, Nouvelle Vague, which tells the dramatised story of the taking pictures of the influential 1960 authentic.
