Kwiziq French Film Fest

"Kwiziq French Film Fest" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your French listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the French listening practice section.


With the Cannes festival just around the corner, May is movie month at Kwiziq! For our first French film fest, we’ve written mini reviews of our favorite movies which you can read and/or listen to. (audio by Aurélie)

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Les films

  1. L’Arnacœur (2010)
  2. Un cœur en hiver (1992)
  3. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
  4. Le Dîner de Cons (1998)
  5. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)

Movie Madness

French Listening Practice

Author info

Laura K Lawless

Laura is a French expert and Kwiziq's Head of Quality Control. Online educator since '99, Laura is passionate about language, travel, and cooking. She's American by birth and a permanent ex-pat by choice - freelancing made it possible for her to travel extensively and live in several countries before settling permanently in Guadeloupe. Laura is the author of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and other websites and books on French, Spanish, Italian, English, and vegetarianism. She spends most of her spare time reading, playing with food, and enjoying water sports.

Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!