French Film Festival
Louis Garrel as Jean-Luc Godard in Michel Hazanavicius' Redoubtable

French Film Festival Weekend

Season

Please note : this season finished in Dec 2017

We’re delighted to welcome the French Film Festival UK - celebrating its 25th anniversary this year – for a weekend of screenings featuring previews of some of the finest new French cinema showcasing some of the country’s most exciting filmmaking talent both in front of and behind the camera.

Including Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts (Fri 15 Dec 20:15) starring Marion Cotillard, Mathieu Amalric and Charlotte Gainsbourg; François Ozon’s new sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller The Double Lover (Sat 16 Dec 20:30); Laurent Cantet’s enthralling fusion of political debate and socially conscious thriller The Workshop (Sun 17 Dec 15:00); and Michel Hazanavicius' brilliantly realised glimpse into the life of iconoclastic French filmmaking legend Jean-Luc Godard, Redoubtable (Sun 17 Dec 18:00).


Previous screenings in this season

Redoubtable

classified 15 S French Film Festival
Redoubtable
Please note: This was screened in Dec 2017
Film

Michel Hazanavicius (Oscar-winning director of The Artist) delivers a brilliantly realised glimpse into the life of iconoclastic French filmmaking legend Jean-Luc Godard, his search for inspiration in late 1960s Paris and his subsequent spiralling into philosophical and romantic crisis.

The Workshop

classified 15 S French Film Festival
The Workshop
Please note: This was screened in Dec 2017
Film

The social and economic issues of provincial France are explored through the medium of education in this new film by Laurent Cantet as he captures the jostling tensions between a group of antsy teenagers attending a writing workshop and their teacher’s attempts to guide them.

The Double Lover

classified 18 S French Film Festival
The Double Lover
Please note: This was screened in Dec 2017
Film

François Ozon’s new sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek.

Ismael’s Ghosts

classified 15 S French Film Festival
Ismael’s Ghosts
Please note: This was screened in Dec 2017
Film

The opening film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, director Arnaud Desplechin’s latest follows a filmmaker whose life is turned upside down when a former lover who had disappeared without trace some two decades previous, suddenly reappears.

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