The year is 2020 AD. Albert Uderzo, one of the fathers of Astérix has left us.
Young and old, here and there, we thank you for having made us laugh, dream, learn.
Rest in peace, par Toutatis!
Farewell Bebel❤️
Icône de la nouvelle vague & le plus cool des monstres sacrés, Jean-Paul Belmondo was one of France’s greatest actors
We are deeply saddened to hear of his loss & we’ll always remember his elegance, panache & immense talent
Tribute at
#Cin
éLumière soon
We are deeply saddened to learn the loss of film director Agnès Varda, a true pioneer in film making & visual art whom we had the pleasure to welcome
@ifru_london
last September.
May she rest in peace.
Nick Barley, director
@edbookfest
, is awarded by Ambassador Jean-Pierre Jouyet
@FranceintheUK
the French Ordre National du Mérite for his contribution to franco-british cultural dialogue and to the success of literature in translation in the UK
A star is gone 💫
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Gaspard Ulliel.
Awarded a César for his roles in Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement & Dolan's It's Only the End of the World, he was one of the most talented 🇫🇷 actors of his generation.
📷London (2011) with
@Unifrance
"Omar has all the ingredients and skill to be able to do anything—produce, direct, etc.—and to do it with an open and generous heart." - Bradley Cooper on
@OmarSy
featuring in the
@TIME
's list of the 100 most influential people of 2021
#TIME100
⚔️Ready for the adventure of a lifetime?
Join
#TheThreeMusketeers
and the mysterious Milady de Winter (Eva Green) in this classic tale of love, war, and betrayal adapted from Alexandre Dumas's masterpiece.
From 21 April at
#Cin
éLumière with
@EFDFilms
👉
À l'occasion de la visite du roi Charles III et de Camilla en France, Brigitte Macron et la reine consort du Royaume-Uni se sont rendues à la BNF pour lancer le prix littéraire franco-britannique.
#StayHomeStaySafe
#Cin
éLumière
@ifru_london
teams up with
@mubiuk
to give you great films from the safety of your home for free and for 3 months.
From Cocteau to Godard, Varda to Dumont, fantastic French cinema comes to you!
▶️
Today, the
@GardeRepFR
took part in the Changing of the Guard parade on the Forecourt of Buckingham Palace to celebrate
#EntenteCordiale120
.
This event has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Friends of the French Institute Trust and M. Vincent Gombault.
#NewRelease
Screening exclusively at Ciné Lumière,
#Kaamelott
is the 1st part of a film trilogy following the hilarious cult Arthurian Legend parody series by Alexandre Astier.
Watch it from 10 Sept at
#Cin
éLumière
👉
#KaamelottPremierVolet
It’s your chance to meet French director Claire Denis
@ifru_london
, who will be taking part in a Q&A following the screening of her film
@HighLifeMovie
! 📽️
8 May at
#Cin
éLumière
👉
We're teaming up with
@KinoKlassika
to bring you Red Front: 75 Years of Russian War Cinema.
Starting with Aleksei German's 1971 debut Trial on the Road; an unflinching & ambivalent portrayal of Soviet soldiers at war.
Available from 9 May at 12pm! ▶️
"Churchill's love for France runs like a golden thread throughout his entire life" - Sir
@NSoames
on his grandfather & the special bond between 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷
Replay his love letter to 🇫🇷 & 🇪🇺 addressed to the UK chapter of the Légion d’Honneur
@ifru_london
▶️
#BookoftheWeek
📚
One year ago,
#NotreDameDeParis
was in flames and the whole world was in shock. In her new essay Notre-Dame: The Soul of France,
@AgnesCPoirier
explores the universal dimension of the cathedral.
👉
Stay tuned for more content!
#NotreDame
We are saddened by the loss of one of France's most beloved & finest screenwriters & actors
#JeanPierreBacri
. Together w/
#Agn
èsJaoui, he wrote the screenplays of
#C
ésar Award-winning cult comedies The Taste of Others, Same Old Song, Family Resemblances & Smoking/No Smoking.
Stay tuned for The Little Prince Live!
#Live
broadcast on our social media from 29 June to 3 July at 5pm of readings and discussions of Saint-Exupéry's classic tale w/ celebrated author
#MichaelMorpurgo
& 5 prestigious guests.
Find out more 👉
“All men have stars" and so do we!
We are proud to announce that Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Okri,
@JadeAnouka
, Ruth Wilson &
@TherealNihal
will join Michael Morpurgo for live readings of The Little Prince on our social media (29 June-3 July - 5pm).
👉
#NewRelease
#Annette
Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard shine as star-crossed lovers in Leos Carax's hallucinatory musical, written by
@sparksofficial
.
Dt miss the Q&A screening w/ Leos Carax on 4 Sept at 6.45pm
From 3 Sept at
#Cin
éLumière w/
@mubiuk
👉
We are delighted to announce that
@ifru_london
has been chosen as a Centre of Excellence for French for the Foreign and Commonwealth office. We will deliver French language training to diplomats for the
@foreignoffice
for the next 3 years.
.
@ifru_london
wishes you a happy
#BastilleDay2021
! 🇫🇷
#OnThisDay
, we want to share our gratitude to all carers & keyworkers for their amazing efforts through these challenging times and also thank our dear audience, partners & artists
Bonne fête à tous !
#FreebieFriday
.
Follow
@ifru_london
& RT for a chance to win a Curzon bundle of films and posters including An Impossible Love, Let the Sunshine In and Summertime.
Charting new territory within genres,
#ClaireDenis
discusses her inspiration & exploration of time & space in
#Highlife
, her 1st film in 🇬🇧 - feat. Juliette Binoche & Robert Pattinson - at
#Cin
éLumière
@ifru_london
Listen to her on
@culturetheque
👉
In
#Broker
, Palme d’Or-winning director Kore-eda Hirokazu "Still manages to deliver a film of effortless charm, grace and earthy humour."
@LWLies
Watch it now at
#Cin
éLumière w/
@PicturehouseEnt
👉
#FreebieFriday
RT to win two tickets to Gérald Garutti's West End Tartuffe starring acclaimed Peaky Blinders' Paul Anderson and French stars
@FleurotAudrey
and Sebastian Roché!
@TartuffePlay
| Theatre Royal Haymarket | 25 May – 28 July
More details:
Monstre sacré and pioneer of the French New Wave Jean-Luc Godard has left us.
He made the history of cinema with masterpieces such as Breathless or Contempt and will forever be remembered for his unique vision of filmmaking.
We pay tribute to French actor Michael Lonsdale. His inimitable voice and charisma thrilled throughout an incredible career ranging from films The Name of the Rose, Ronin, Munich, Moonraker, Of Gods and Men and India Song (recently seen at
#Cin
éLumière).
May he rest in peace.
On the eve of what would have been her 92nd birthday, we look back at the boundless visionary that is Agnès Varda.
Watch & remember the irreplaceable Varda in an exclusive in-house interview
@ifru_london
in 2018
▶️
Stay tuned for more content!
Thank you Claudine Ripert-Landler for your amazing work leading the French Institute over the last three & a half years so it carries on building bridges between 🇫🇷 & 🇬🇧, support arts, artists & ideas & champion cultural diversity.
We wish you the best on the road ahead. Merci!
2024 is a key moment in the history of the 🇫🇷🇬🇧relationship: 120 years ago, the leaders of the United Kingdom and France signed the
#EntenteCordiale
.
See how we're going to celebrate it all year long!
👉
🇫🇷 Vive l'Entente Cordiale ! 🇬🇧
#EntenteCordiale120
Sad to hear of the passing of another great French Pop singer, France Gall: «elle a joué du piano debout toute sa vie, engagée pour l’Afrique. Nous regretterons à jamais poupée de cire, poupée de son» says French Ambassador JPJouyet.
#RIP
#DidYouKnow
that 🇫🇷 is an official language in 29 countries, & it is spoken on every continent? Et oui!
We celebrate French language in March with the Mois de la
#FrancophonieUK
C'est parti !
👉
#VivelaFrancophonie
Today we celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale 🇫🇷🇬🇧
It’s also the deadline for the Prix de l’Entente Littéraire! You can apply until midnight (UK time)
👉
#EntenteCordiale120
New year, new ideas!💡
The
#nightofideas
becomes a week-long online festival packed w/ films & free debates from 22 to 29 Jan
@ifru_london
Join the debate & discuss new ways of being
#together
▶️
Claude Lanzmann, director of Holocaust documentary
#Shoah
, one of the most essential films ever made died today at the age of 92. May he rest in peace.
#BeyondWordsFest
pays tribute to Colette with acclaimed authors Deborah Levy, Michèle Roberts, Emmanuelle Lambert and scholar Diana Holmes.
150 years after her birth, she is now praised as a genius of literature, a true modernist.
In 2020, France celebrates the 9th art with
@2020anneeBd
: France loves Comics, so does the Institut français!
Live drawings, e-books, virtual workshops, book clubs, competitions, we have more than one trick in our comics cauldron!
👉
On this
#WorldTelevisionDay
we are so happy to see that so many
#French
#TVseries
have crossed the Channel such as The Bureau, Spin, Spiral and Versailles! Stay tuned for more French TV series in the UK!
As the
@AcadGoncourt
has just revealed the short list for the prestigious
#PrixGoncourt
(announced next week), we are thrilled to share the good news that students from 15 UK universities will take part in the
#ChoixGoncourtUK
in March 2022.
#StayTuned
Discreet & charming, 1 of 🇫🇷's greatest artists, Jean-Claude Carrière died.
Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he's the screenwriter behind Belle de jour, The Tin Drum, Cyrano, 100 films, 1001 stories.
He came
@ifru_london
& we remember his profound humanity & insatiable curiosity
#DidYouKnow
that
#French
is the 5th most spoken language in the world with over 300 million French speakers?
Et oui !
How far will you go with the French Language?
#Plusloin
👉
#BeyondWords
goes digital!
Your favourite festival of French literature is back from 11 to 24 May and takes places online! Expect the hottest publications, exclusive interviews, readings & Q&As with acclaimed authors and new voices
Save the date!
#WeRecommend
A must-see starting today! French musical based on the novel Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo returns to London to our greatest delight.
23 - 27 Jan
@LondonColiseum
👉
⭐️Spotlight on 🇫🇷 series!
The two successful 🇫🇷 TV shows
#Lupin
&
#CallMyAgent
have been listed by
@guardian
among the best TV programmes of 2021 (so far)
Have you seen them yet?
Check this out
👉
🎁 💄 Like this post, RT & follow us for a chance to win a bundle of goodies, courtesy of
@girlsontopstees
,
@LilyLolo
&
@ModernFilmsEnt
+ 2 tickets 🎫🎫 to meet director Jean-Paul Salomé for the special screening of La Syndicaliste, starring Isabelle Huppert on 1 July!
#ThrowbackThursday
to our interview of French actor Laurent Stocker, fellow
@ComedieFr
who appears in the stage production of Twelfth Night directed by Thomas Ostermeier.
Find out more on our Spotlight on
#ComedieFrancaiseUK
season
👉