Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Chef Christian Le Squer, takes us into the kitchen of his three-Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Cinq. You will see the cooks at work making exquisite dishes. Le Squer wants the food cooked to perfection, even "sexy," as he puts it. His job is to taste only, but it's not as easy as it looks.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
After her divorce, Sarah is raising her son Nino alone and is having trouble coping with his hostile behavior. Her financial situation doesn't allow for meat on the table more than twice a week. Nino proposes a dishonest solution, but his mother won't hear of it.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
René and Sylvette have decided to go their separate ways and have forgiven their granddaughter Louise. But Louise has one more surprise in store for René, and this time it works!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
After multiple organizations refused to finance his film Un frère comme moi (A Brother Like Me), Alain Etoundi decided to speak out by making a short film called Allez tous vous faire enfilmer! (Go Film Yourselves!). He criticizes the French film industry for not doing justice to suburban black communities, preferring instead to churn out films with stereotypical black characters.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
When René, Edna, Sylvette, and Louise finally come face to face with each other, Edna and Louise can no longer hide their game of deception. The confusion that ensues slowly clears as confessions come forth. Will they all recover and forgive one another?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Louise's scheme is starting to unravel. Annette is no longer playing the role she was assigned, and Louise's grandfather has fallen in love again, but not with the right person. How is she going to deal with the situation? Her grandmother is left in the dark for now.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Patricia recites one of Jean de La Fontaine's most famous fables, "La Cigale et la Fourmi" (The Cicada and the Ant). After spending the entire summer singing instead of storing food, the cicada is starving come winter. She hopes her neighbor the ant can help her....
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Louise begs Edna to try to make Sylvette jealous enough so that she will go back to her husband René. Edna, posing as René's new girlfriend Annette, agrees to confront Sylvette to tell her that she's in love with him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Moroccan rapper Lartiste is enjoying a huge success with his hit song "Chocolat." Recorded as a duo with the singer Awa Imani, the song is being played non-stop in the French-speaking world thanks in part to its catchy refrain, cho cho cho chocolat.
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