Lost in Frenchlation is a Paris-based club that runs screenings of French films — both new releases and timeless classics — with English subtitles, in order to allow language learners to appreciate the offerings of French cinema.
Thursday, September 3rd
De La Comédie Française
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple, Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online here.
Pauline Clément stars as the director of a theatre production of Macbeth, in Martin Darondeau and Bertrand Usclat’s award-winning debut feature – a comedy of errors chronicling the chaotic final few hours before opening night.
Friday, September 4th
Jim Queen
Where? L’Entrepôt, 7 Rue Francis de Pressensé
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.00 – €9.50. Order them online here.
A satire on identity, fame and queer culture. A gay influencer’s life crumbles when a virus turns gay men in Paris straight. He teams up with a younger man to find a rumoured cure in the Marais.
Sunday, September 6th
César et Rosalie
Where? Studio des Ursulines 10 rue des Ursulines Paris
When? Tea Bar at 7pm (bring your own mug), and screening at 7.30pm presented by Léonore Wolff @lecinemafrancais)
Tickets Prices range from €5.40 – €9.40. Order them online here.
Madame Bovary meets Jules et Jim in Claude Sautet’s 1972 classic love triangle comedy drama, starring Yves Montand, Romy Schneider and Sami Frey.
Thursday, September 10th
La Venus Électrique
Where? Le Balzac, 1 Rue Balzac, Paris
When? Amelie Montmartre Movie Tour at 4.30pm, Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5 – €11.50. Order them online here.
Details and tickets for the Amelie Montmartre Movie Tour can be ordered here.
A painter in 1920s Paris, unable to work since his wife’s death, unknowingly participates in fake spiritualist shows staged by a carnival worker. As he regains his inspiration, she falls in love with the man she is deceiving.
Saturday, September 12th
Intouchables
Where? Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris
When? 7.30pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.40 – €9.40. 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.
Sunday, September 13th
La Venus Electrique
Where? Le Balzac, 1 Rue Balzac, Paris
When? 11am
Tickets €6.50. Order them online here.
A second chance to see the romantic comedy set in 1920s Paris.
Tuesday, September 15th
Le Corniaud
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.
Classic French comedy, following the misadventures of a naive salesman, who heads off on a holiday road trip from Naples to Bordeaux in a luxury vehicle given to him by a wealthy businessman following a road traffic incident – blissfully unaware he’s the stooge in a criminal enterprise.
Thursday, September 17th
37°2 Le Matin
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online here.
Lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist Gérard Darmon tries to support his younger girlfriend Béatrice Dalle as she slowly succumbs to madness in Jean-Jacques Beineix erotic 80s classic.
Saturday, September 19th
Jim Queen
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris
When? 11am
Tickets €7. Order them online here.
A second chance this month to see the animated satire.
Sunday, September 20th
Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain
Where? L’Epée de Bois 100 Rue Mouffetard Paris
When? 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online 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.
Tuesday, September 22nd
Le Chant des Forêts
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.
Film-maker Vincent Munier, accompanied by his naturalist father Michel and son Simon, head into the forests of the Vosges Mountains to observe, document and celebrate the beauty and fragility of nature.
Friday, September 25th
La Bataille de Gaulle – partie 1: L’Âge de fer
Where? Lucernaire, 53 Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris
When? Midnight in Paris movie tour at 5pm, drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online here.
Details and tickets for the Midnight in Paris movie tour can be ordered here.
A powerful account of Charles de Gaulle’s journey during World War Two, from his rise as a military leader to his emergence in French politics between 1940-1945.
Sunday, September 27th
La Bataille de Gaulle – partie 1: L’Âge de fer
Where? Luminor, 20 rue du Temple, 75004 Paris
When? Midnight in Paris movie tour at 5pm, drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets €7. Order them online here.
A second chance to see this powerful account of Charles de Gaulle’s journey during World War Two, in the first of the day’s two Lost in Frenchlation films at Luminor.
Sunday, September 27th
Aline
Where? Luminor, 20 rue du Temple, 75004 Paris
When? Drinks and karaoke at 7pm followed by the screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online here.
With the support of her family and the man she loves, the 14th child of a modest family will become the most famous singer in the world, in a drama loosely based on the life and career of Céline Dion.
Tuesday, September 29th
La Vie d’une Femme
Where? Le Saint-Germain-des-Prés 22 rue Guillaume-Apollinaire Paris
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm
Tickets Prices range from €6.50 – €11.40. Order them online here.
A 50-something surgeon questions her choices just as a novelist arrives at her crisis-hit hospital to watch her work for a book.
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