French
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FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
When the French Peasants stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14th 1789, their Queen Marie-Antoinette was holding Court elsewhere in the country at the Palace in Versailles. This rather resplendent and engaging costume drama follows the doomed Dauphine’s next three days fuelled by courtier’s gossip as all their lives start to fall apart. The…
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THE INTOUCHABLES
This feel-good French fairy story with its funny hybrid title is about a pair of ‘untouchables’. One is Philipe a very wealthy Parisian aristocrat who is now paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident, and the other is Driss an African immigrant newly released from jail and living in the projects who unwittingly…
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THE DAY I SAW YOUR HEART
Eli Dhrey is an insensitive boor. He’s a wealthy 60-year-old man who casually announces to his family that his much younger 2nd wife is pregnant, totally ignoring the distress of Dom his older married daughter who has desperately been trying to conceive for the past two years. His younger daughter Justine, a 27-year-old radiographer but…
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ROMANTIC’S ANONYMOUS
One of the things I really liked about this quirky Gallic love story was that it was not about a flawlessly perfect beautiful young couple but rather about a painfully shy somewhat ordinary pair in their early/mid forties. It’s the sweet (literally) tale of Angelique a talented chocolatier who is so introvert that any small…
