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Dear parents,

 Our French immersion program in Williamsburg / Greenpoint  which will begin in September 2014 has spots open  for children  2.5 yrs to 4 yrs old.
Led by experienced and dynamic French speakers this program will follow a curriculum and  offer our children an opportunity to learn about our world through creative and dramatic play, arts, stories, singing, playing, learning alphabet, numbers sharing meals all immersed in the French language.
Our drop-off classes will meet in a child-friendly rented room at Play, 33 Nassau avenue ( by the MC Carren park) in Brooklyn from 9:00am to 1:00pm Mondays- Fridays ( 2, 3 and 5 days options) starting September 8, 2014 to the end of June 2015.
For more info contact me at frenchforlittleones at gmail dot com

P. S. 84 in Manhattan is seeking a French speaking Teacher Assistant to work full time in a K and 1st grade French Dual Language Class.  PTA Funded.  

If you are interested, email me Tflores@schools.nyc.gov or call (212) 799-2534.

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER, acclaimed French director André Téchiné’s headline-making real life thriller starring Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel.  A selection of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 2015 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, May 15 (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and IFC Center) followed by a national roll-out.

French Riviera, 1976.  Young divorcée Agnès Le Roux (recent César Best Actress winner Adèle Haenel) falls for shady lawyer Maurice Agnelet (Tell No One director Guillaume Canet, soon to be seen in the new Stephen Frears film Icon), allowing him to manipulate her into handing the casino run by her mother Renée (Catherine Deneuve), over to the mob.  The subsequent disappearance of Agnès, her body never found, and Maurice’s emigration to Panama with her money convinces Renée that he has murdered her, and

Drafthouse Films is proud to announce the release of Cédric Jimenez’ THE CONNECTION, starring Academy Award® winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist, The Wolf of Wall Street), Gilles Lellouche (Point Blank, Mesrine: Killer Instinct), Céline Sallette (Rust and Bone), Mélanie Doutey (The Flower of Evil), and Benoît Magimel (The Piano Teacher). A commercial hit in France, THE CONNECTION was a Gala presentation at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and is scheduled to open in New York (at the Landmark’s Sunshine) and Los Angeles on Friday, May 15, followed by a national roll out.

Directed and co-written by Cédric Jimenez, THE CONNECTION was entirely shot on 35 mm and is the European flipside to William Friedkin’s The French Connection.  A stylish, 70's-period crime thriller inspired by true events, it tells the story of real-life Marseilles magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) and his relentless crusade to dismantle the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history: the French C

Music Box Films is proud to announce the release of writer-director Anne Fontaine's GEMMA BOVERY, a vibrant seriocomic re-imagining of Flaubert’s literary classic Madame Bovary, with a screenplay written by Pascal Bonitzer (The Duchess of Langeais, Genealogies of a Crime) and Ms. Fontaine, based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel. Starring acclaimed French film and theatre actor Fabrice Lucchini (In the House, Potiche, Intimate Strangers) and British rising star Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe), GEMMA BOVERY is scheduled to open on May 29 in New York (at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and the Sunshine Cinema) and Los Angeles with a national roll out to follow.

Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng, X-Men: First Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) move to the very same Norman village where the novel was written.  Local baker and Flaubert fan Martin Joubert (F

CUNY TV’s global film series CITY CINEMATHEQUE will present Classics of French Film, premiering Saturday & Sunday, June 6 & 7 (2015) at 9 PM.  After each of the films – shown in the original French language with English subtitles – series host Jerry W. Carlson, Professor of Cinema Studies at The City College/CUNY, meets with film scholars to discuss the impact and influence of the week’s offering.

CITY CINEMATHEQUE is presented every weekend, with the same film on Saturday and Sunday nights at 9 PM, repeated again the following Friday night (early Saturday morning) at midnight.  CUNY TV is broadcast over-the-air in the New York metropolitan area (including areas of Long Island, Westchester, NJ, and CT within 35 miles of Times Square) on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner and Cablevision/Optimum Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN Cable) and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS).

Complete information about the five Classics of French Film, ranging from 1946 to

Come to our new cabaret show telling Piaf’s story through song, circus and burlesque!

On JUNE 9TH at 8pm (doors at 7pm) and JULY 13TH at 9.30pm (doors at 9pm), I will happily guide you through the decadent world of Edith Piaf using her timeless songs to retell the life of this iconic performer who’ve inspired me so much in becoming an artist. Accompanied by a traditional musette band and multi-disciplinary backup singers, I will recreate the brothels, circuses and nightclubs that created the great Piaf we all know. The performance will last 60-70 minutes.

2015 marks Edith Piaf’s centennial. ‘La Môme Piaf’, as she was nicknamed, introduced America to the world of ‘Chanson Réaliste’. Her songbook has become classic and still engages audiences worldwide. However, her early life is shrouded in mystery – daughter of a circus performer, childhood in a brothel, blind for years and ‘miraculously’ cured by a pilgrimage St. Therese – these stories and more are brought to life with music, dance

The subjects of GEDDA’s paintings are water and the cosmos, and those two worlds meet in images that ground an open airiness with fluidity and a dynamic sense of movement. Working in what she calls “the tradition of lyrical abstraction,” the artist animates her compositions by enhancing the depth and light of each color she uses, making her images glow from within. She also combines painting techniques and textures to strong effect, mixing liquid fields of color and drips of paint with sharply etched lines and rough, energetic brush strokes. These elements come together in works that balance freedom and openness with a tightly organized sense of formal balance.

Over the course of her career, the artist has gone from making black and white drawings to oil on canvas paintings, to finding a unique style in her current work, done in oils and resin on plexiglass. Sometimes painting on both sides of the clear plexiglass surface, she gives her images a complex, multi-layered presence, making

Thomas Lilti's Hippocrates, Diary of a French Doctor starring Vincent Lacoste (the French kissers) and Reda Kateb (Zero Dark Thirty, A Prophet) is now playing at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas 

Closing night of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week, Hippocrates, Diary of a French Doctor is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin, played by Vincent Lacoste (Eden), who begins his internship at the hospital ward run by his father.  Confident and determined that he will quickly become a successful doctor, Vincent soon realizes that the reality of the medical world is a lot grimmer than what he had imagined. He is also overshadowed by his co-junior partner Abdel, a foreign doctor, played by Reda Kateb (Lost River, Zero Dark Thirty) who’s obviously more competent than he is but who’s forced to work as an intern because of his immigrant status. When Vincent makes a medical error, his father quickly covers it up but Abdel is not fooled…

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C’est connu, se faire larguer par son mec à l’âge ou les ovaires rêvent de biberon à tétine multifonctions, c’est la grande déprime assurée. Sauf pour Blanche, qui trouve là l’occasion de tout remettre en question : elle-même, la famille, les amis, les hommes, la politique, le sens de la vie sur terre… Tout quoi ! Tandis que le public enfile son gilet pare balles, Blanche se rend compte qu’elle est allée trop loin… mais il est déjà trop tard.

Du 23 juin au 7 juillet à New york

Réservation sur www.frenchcomedynight.com

Tentez de gagner deux places pour le show en envoyant un email à contact@frenchcomedynight.com. Gagnant par tirage au sort, bonne chance !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iekgye_ED0

"Zarafa is living proof that 3D and computer-generated animation aren't necessary as long as the story is solid and overall animation quality high"- Variety

"Colorfully compelling!"- Hollywood Reporter

ZARAFA
By Rémi Bezançon & Jean-Christophe Lie
2012 | Animation | Ages 6 & up | 1h18 | France | GKIDS

Beneath a baobab tree, an old man tells the story of Maki, a young boy who crosses the desert with his giraffe and a Bedouin nomad named Hassan. During the epic journey from Africa to Paris, which takes them through Alexandria and the bustling port of Marseilles, Maki and his companions meet countless exotic characters.

Presented in partnership with the Poitou-Charentes Region and the New York Int'l Children's Film Festival (NYICFF)

Film in English (new English language version!)
FREE and open to the public