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This weekend sees a whole host of French acts play at the The Great Escape festival in Brighton, an…
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Saturday night sees France's Amandine Bourgeoise represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song L'enfer et moi. It's a strong bluesy rock number, and time will tell how it does at the event in Malmo.
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This weekend sees a whole host of French acts play at the The Great Escape festival in Brighton, an…
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Institut français (57 min)
Born in 1923, Yves Bonnefoy is one of the most important figures of contemporary poetry, and his work has been translated into several different languages. He is also an essayist, philosopher and...…
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Director Régis Roinsard and actor Déborah François presented their film Populaire at the Institut français.
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Actor Lambert Wilson and director Philippe Le Guay present their film Cycling with Molière and answer questions from the audience.
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Born in 1923, Yves Bonnefoy is one of the most important figures of contemporary poetry, and his work has been translated into several different languages. He is also an essayist, philosopher and...…
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A talk with Moroccan writer and artist Mahi Binebine, author of the novel Horses of God which inspired the film. Chaired by writer and curator Omar Kholeif.
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Director Régis Roinsard and actor Déborah François presented their film Populaire at the Institut français.
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It’s been almost twenty years now since Mathieu Kassovitz seized attention with his angry, snarling and uncompromising debut La Haine. He’s still as angry in his gritty thriller set in the...…
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Jean Blaise and Sarah Weir, two of Europe’s foremost cultural leaders and urban changemakers, discussed art in the city with one of Britain’s most celebrated designers, Thomas Heatherwick, who...…
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Actor Lambert Wilson and director Philippe Le Guay present their film Cycling with Molière and answer questions from the audience.
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Veteran director Bernardo Bertolucci’s first film since The Dreamers in 2003 takes him back to the turbulence of youth. In this Q&A, Bertolucci presents his film Me and You.
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Director Gilles Bourdos and actress Christa Theret present the film 'Renoir' and answer questions from the public.
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A former political reporter in Paris, Christian Roudaut has been a UK correspondent for ten years. He works for Radio France, the TV channel Arte and the newsmagazine Marianne. His last...…
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This conference coincides with the launch of the first book published in English on the work of Françoise Dolto, Theory and Practice in Child Psychoanalysis (G.Hall, F. Hivernel, S. Morgan). The...…
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The French Institute Hosts E. Carrère and Tibord Fisher
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When she discovers a mysterious tree grown overnight in her Paris Garden, a Greek opera singer seeks help from an ex-cop and three historians - the three evangelists. A few days later, her body is...…
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Born in 1971 in Nice, Joann Sfar read philosophy and attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He has scripted and illustrated several hundred bandes dessinées, and in 1998 received the prix...…
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Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (Prix Médicis de l'essai 2006) has been one of the key figures of French intellectual and literary life over the last 40 years. A leading psychoanalyst with an...…
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The French Institute hosts D. Pennac and M. Rosen.
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Amélie Nothomb, Goncourt Prize Nominee 2010 and one of the most successful writers in France, visited the Institut français in 2004 and discussed the Book of Proper Names with the London-based...…
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Novelist, playwright, poet and literary critique Julien Gracq gives a rare and insightful analysis of the literary world and discusses the place of his work within it.
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Deeply interested in the issues posed by feminism, the Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva has published a trilogy devoted to the feminine genius. She first wrote about the two great...…
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It's 1923, and the young Rikkat is being brought up in the belief that her entire life will be devoted to the art of calligraphy. That same year, Ataturk's republic breaks away from the Islamic...…
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To celebrate Tintin's 75th anniversary and on the occasion of the new exhibition The Adventures of Tintin at Sea at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, the Institut Français exhibited a...…
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French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote many influential essays on cinema, literature and fine art. In this talk he gave at the French Institute in 1971, he argues that Proust's work is not so...…
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Alain de Botton discusses his book The Art of Travel with Jonathan Rée, offering a philosophical insight into the notion of travelling. Unlike other texts stating where to go, Botton explains the...…
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A portrait of writer, psychoanalyst, anti-colonialist and political activist Frantz Fanon by Alice Cherki, who came at the Institut Français in 2007.
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Martinique-born author Patrick Chamoiseau discusses the meaning of the creole identity and Fanon's relationship to it.
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Marie Cardinal discusses the meaning of being a writer in this talk that took place at the Institut Français in 1991.
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On the occasion of his 70th birthday, composer Pierre Boulez discusses his work and the meaning of composition in contemporary classical music.
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Frédéric Beigbeder, Renaudot Prize winner 2009, presents his best-selling novel 99F. The confessions of a disillusioned child of the millenium, this is a scathing, violent, tragic and hilarious...…
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The political debate focusing on the uses and misuses of universalism has been reactivated by discussions about the effects of globalization and their impact on post-colonial and gender studies....…
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Philosopher, critic and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the most prominent intellectual figures to have emerged in post-war France. His work extended over many fields and influenced...…
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Historian, essayist and emeritus Professor at the Collège de France Marc Fumaroli discusses the life and work of classical painter Nicolas Poussin, first painter to the King Louis XIII for a time...…
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Highlighting women's particpation in the French revolution, feminist writer Elisabeth Badinter assesses the part played by women in the Revolution and limits of citizenship in the age of...…
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In a rare talk he gave at the Institut Français in 1971, Michel Butor gives a presentation on books and the role they play in culture.
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Half the world's population has been seriously traumatised by war, violence, rape, illness, deportation, grief, cruelty, sexual abuse and injury. One in four people will experience at least two...…
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In the talk that he gave at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Guillaume Le Blanc gave an interpretation of the text by the philosopher Michel Foucault, "La vie des hommes infâmes".…
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In the talk that he gave at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Francis Wolff, specialist in Ancient Greek Philosophy and in Metaphysics, focused on the special properties of the human language.…
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In the talk that they gave at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Cécile Meynard and Thomas Lebarbé, joint leaders of the Stendhal's Manuscripts digital archive project, presented their current...…
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Alain de Botton discusses his book The Art of Travel with Jonathan Rée, offering a philosophical insight into the notion of travelling. Unlike other texts stating where to go, Botton explains the...…
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In this talk he gave at the French Institute in 1977, historian and member of the Académie Française Pierre Nora analyses how the main French politicians and presidents have tried to embody the...…
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Daniel Pennac, Michael Rosen
Daniel Pennac's latest book in English, School Blues, explores the many facets of schooling, including how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Daniel Pennac was a teacher before writing...…
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La laïcité définition, histoire, enjeux…
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Charles Dantzig à la Maison Française d'Oxford…
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Diderot and chemistry: a model of experimental philosophy…
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Musical Scenes in the French Novel of the Eighteenth Century…
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De Gaulle et la France Libre, De l'Appel du 18 Juin à la Libération…
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The letters of Vincent van Gogh: book and web edition…
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France's Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950…
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Managerial Thought and Practice in France, 19th-21st Centuries: Assessment and Future Prospects…
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Communicating Science and Technology: France and the United Kingdom, Historical Perspectives…
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