Newsletter - December 11, 2011
Trending French Movies
Intouchables: Twelve Million Frenchmen can't be wrong! That's the number of spectators who have seen this movie-event, after a mere 5 weeks in French theaters. The story depicts depicts the growing friendship between [click here] to see the more about this film and more trending films released or about to be released in France.
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"Hugo" pays tribute to Paris and French cinema
Latest Scorsese movie has references to the early days of cinema in France
Cultural bonding between France and the USA has kept happening through cinema over the past weeks! We explained in the last FOCUS ON FRENCH CINEMA newsletter how the French film The Artist brought back to life silent movies and the Hollywood of the 1920s. Martin Scorsese's movie Hugo also explores the beginnings of the "7th Art", while the action takes place in ...
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George Méliès (1861 - 1938) : Was this French pioneer filmmaker the Spielberg of the earliest days?
With his several breakthroughs in the field of cinema and special effects, it should come as no surprise that Méliès is sometimes referred to as the "First Cinemagician". Indeed, a magician he was, even before working in the field of cinema, either performing ...
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