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⭐ Cannes Festival Edition ⭐

Le Festival de Cannes being one of the most talked-about cinema events in the world, many have expressed an opinion about it. Here’s a selection of 3 interesting quotes about the festival 🤩:

“Cannes, c’est d’abord un escalier : un escalier facile à monter… difficile à descendre.” – French director Claude Lelouch

(Cannes is first and foremost a staircase: one that is easy to go up… hard to come down.)

“Cannes : un échec constant dominé par les compromis, les combines et les faux pas…” – French director François Truffaut

(Cannes: a constant failure dominated by compromises, schemes and blunders…)

“Cannes, c’est un endroit bizarre où l’on montre des films qui ne sont pas sûrs de sortir à des gens qui ne sont pas sûrs d’y aller.” – Gilles Jacob, president of Cannes Festival between 2001 and 2014

(Cannes is a strange place where they show films that aren’t sure to be released to people who aren’t sure they’ll attend.)

Qui est-ce ? – Episode 7 📽️

The Guessing Game Podcast

Silence, action, ça tourne ! In this week’s episode of our “Qui est-ce ?” podcast series, Kwiziq’s super detectives Céline and I will give you clues (en français bien sûr !) to guess a beloved French actress. 🎬🧐

So put on your thinking cap and enjoy all the extra practise content related to the podcast, like our special Fill-in-the-Blank exercise AND grammar Notebook! 🤩

Qui est-ce ? – Episode 7 📽️

And to help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons, an exclusive Fill-in-the-Blank exercise and interesting links to other exercises to investigate further!

🎧 Want to listen to more of our podcasts? Check out all our episodes!

Découvrons 5 réalisatrices françaises !

Bilingual Article with audio – B2 Level

Let’s conclude our French cinema retrospective with this awesome Top 5, compiled by our very own Rowen, to highlight some of the great female film directors in the world of Francophone cinema: Claire Denis, Zabou Breitman, Anne Fontaine, Blandine Lenoir and Claire Simon. So join us to (re)discover these 5 amazing directors in the bilingual article with audio below:

Découvrons 5 réalisatrices françaises !

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This week’s theme is Movies.

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