The Paris-based cinema club Lost in Frenchlation screens French films with English subtitles - and they want you to know that all their screenings are in cinemas with la clim (air conditioning).
Thursday, July 2nd
Le Rêve Américain (The American Dream)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple, Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.50 – €12. Order them online here.
A couple of underdogs from France – with no connections and shaky English – defy the odds to become power players in the NBA.
Friday, July 3rd
OSS 117, Le Caire Nid d’espions (OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies)
Where? Lucernaire 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris
When? Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €6 – €11. Order them online here.
Hapless French secret agent Jean Dujardin blunders his way through Egyptian politics, religion, and espionage as he investigates the disappearance of a fellow agent in Cairo and uncovers a secret arms deal.
Sunday, July 5th
La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now... We’re Being Shot At!)
Where? Studio des Ursulines 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris
When? Tea Bar at 7pm (bring your own mug) and screening at 7.30pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.40 – €9.40. Order them online here.
A trio of British air force pilots forced to bail out over occupied France enlist the help of a pair of well-intentioned but inept Resistance fighters to avoid Nazi soldiers and flee to the Free French Zone, in this hugely popular 60-year-old comedy. It's the kind of thing that French TV channels screen every Christmas.
Watch out for Terry Thomas with a truly enormous moustache.
Tuesday, July 7th
Nouvelle Vague (New Wave)
Where? Studio des Ursulines 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris
When? French New Wave Movie Tour at 4.30pm, screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online here.
New Wave Movie Tour tickets (€18) are available here.
Richard Linklater’s homage to Nouvelle Vague director Jean-Luc Godard follows the shooting of the iconic Breathless in 1959, with Guillaume Marbeck as a young Godard.
Thursday, July 9th
Histoires Parallèles (Parallel Tales)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple, Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.50 – €12. Order them online here.
A novelist seeking a way to break her writer’s block hires a young man as a home help – little realising the disruption he will cause her personal and professional life.
Friday, July 10th
OSS 117 : Rio Ne Répond Plus (OSS 117: Lost in Rio)
Where? Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris
When? Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €6 – €11. Order them online here.
Twelve years after the events in Cairo, hapless French secret agent Jean Dujardin is back.
Sent to Brazil to track down a microfilm that could compromise the French state, he teams up with a seductive Mossad lieutenant colonel to capture a Nazi blackmailer.
Sunday, July 12th
Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Three Colours: Blue)
Where? Épée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5 – €9.90. Order them online here.
The first part of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s remarkable Three Colours trilogy stars Juliette Binoche as a grieving widow and mother who tries to isolate herself from the world following the deaths of her composer husband and daughter in a car accident. But she discovers severing human connections is much harder than she had expected.
Tuesday, July 14th
Un Peuple et Son Roi (One Nation, One King)
Where? L’Epée de Bois 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5 – €9.90. Order them online here.
The lives of ordinary citizens and key historical figures intersect in the newly created National Assembly in the early days of the French Revolution, as the fate of the King, and the emergence of the Republic, hangs in the balance.
Thursday, July 16th
Vie Privée (A Private Life)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.50 – €12. Order them online here.
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars as an American psychologist in Paris whose perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos when patient Virginie Efira dies suddenly. Torn between guilt and the suspicion that it might be murder, she turns to ex-husband Daniel Auteil to find out what happened.
Friday, July 17th
OSS 117 : Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire (OSS 117: From Africa with Love)
Where? Lucernaire 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris
When? Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €6 – €11. Order them online here.
For this new mission – more delicate, dangerous, and explosive than ever – bumbling secret agent Jean Dujardin teams up with a younger colleague.
Sunday, July 19th
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
Where? Studio des Ursulines 10 rue des Ursulines Paris
When? Tea Bar at 7pm (bring your own mug) and screening at 7.30pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.40 – €9.40. Order them online here.
Catherine Deneuve’s star was born in this dazzling musical heart-tugger, in which she plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, whose romance with handsome garage mechanic Nino Castelnuovo is cut short by war in Algeria.
Tuesday, July 21st
Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7)
Where? L’Arlequin, 76 Rue de Rennes, Paris 6
When? Agnès Varda Movie Tour at 4.30pm, Screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online here.
Agnès Varda Movie Tour tickets (€18) are available here.
Directed by the legendary Agnès Varda, the film follows Cléo for a snippet of her life – just 90 minutes – as she waits for the results of a biopsy in Paris.
Thursday, July 23rd
L’Abandon (Forsaken)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.50 – €12. Order them online here.
A dramatic retelling of the final 11 days of teacher Samuel Paty’s life and the chain of events that led to his murder in October 2020.
Friday, July 24th
La Boum (Forsaken)
Where? Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris 6
When? Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €6 – €11. Order them online here.
Romantic comedy depicting the life of a 13-year-old girl amid family drama and love. A staple of French teens’ slumber parties.
Sunday, July 26th
Trois Couleurs: Blanc (Three Colours: White)
Where? L’Epée de Bois 100 Rue Mouffetard Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5 – €9.90. Order them online here.
The middle film of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy. After getting divorced and losing his job, along with his legal residency in France, Polish immigrant Zbigniew Zamachowski begins to rebuild his life while plotting an elaborate revenge scheme against former wife Julie Delpy, who left him after just six months.
Tuesday, July 28th
Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
Where? L’Epée de Bois 100 Rue Mouffetard Paris
When? Montmartre Movie Tour at 4.30pm, drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5 – €9.90. Order them online here.
Montmartre Movie Tour tickets (€18) are available here.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s modern French classic is just as good now as it was on its release back in 2001. Painfully shy waitress Amélie (a delightful Audrey Tatou) spends her days working at a Parisian cafe, playing matchmaker, guardian angel and doer of good deeds. But the arrival of a handsome stranger thrusts her into a romantic limelight she had previously shunned.
Thursday, July 30th
Juste Une Illusion (Just an Illusion)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.50 – €12. Order them online here.
Camille Cottin — of Call My Agent, Killing Eve and coffee-maker advert fame — stars in this coming-of-age comedy. She’s the middle-class matriarch of a dysfunctional family, whose youngest son constantly fumbles life’s big questions. Viewers of a certain age will love the killer 1980s soundtrack.
Friday, July 31st
Intouchables (Untouchable)
Where? Lucernaire 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris
When? Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €6 – €11. Order them online here.
Omar Sy’s breakout role – he became the first black recipient of a César for Best Actor for his performance – was this perennially popular feelgood drama about a grumpy tetraplegic aristocrat who rediscovers life when he hires a young black man from the Parisian banlieues to be his carer.
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