Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Here's the trailer for La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), a new French film based on the famous fairy tale first published in 1740. While some of you may be most familiar with the Walt Disney or Jean Cocteau versions, this recent release is an attempt to recapture the spirit of the original tale while also giving it more of a contemporary twist.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Héla Fattoumi, originally from Tunis, has taken her feelings on the full-body veil to the stage, in her dance performance piece “Manta.”
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sacha and Annie share an apartment. Their neighbor Nico is in love with Sacha, while Annie is in love with him. Things get even more complicated when Sacha receives a letter from Sam, her former American pen pal.
Difficulty: Beginner
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Sacha and Annie are excited about Sam's imminent arrival from America. While they are getting the apartment ready, Nico shows up, to Annie's delight and Sacha's dismay.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sacha's American pen pal Sam arrives at her and Annie's flat. He doesn't quite live up to their fantasy, and his French needs a lot of improvement.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
It's Sam first day at Sacha and Annie's apartment. The girls are not impressed with Sam's attempts to communicate in French.
Difficulty: Beginner
France None
Sam pulls on the curtain ropes for room service, and when Nico appears, he mistakes him for the porter. Sam has a few things to learn, and Nico is more than happy to teach him some French....
Difficulty: Beginner
France
There's a little male competition between Sam and Nico, who throws a challenge to Sam: Can he pedal for fifty kilometers on Sacha's exercise bike?
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sacha is furious because Sam used her bike without her permission. She wants him out, but after he comes out of the shower, she and Annie are very impressed by his physique...
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sam is suddenly popular with the girls, and even Nico is impressed. What made them change their minds?
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sacha brags about her new job, where she gets to schmooze with celebrities. Annie is a tad jealous...
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sacha wants Sam to apply for a news reporter job, but first she must coach him for the audition...
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nico fancies himself as Hamlet and thinks he can coach Sam to help him become a TV reporter.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sacha doesn't have time to help Sam prepare for his audition at the TV station. She has a meeting with Sting!
Difficulty: Beginner
France
When Sacha forgets about Sam's audition, he's left to his own devices. Sacha is less than satisfied with the results.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sacha isn't too happy when she finds out her new editor-in-chief is her old high school acquaintance, Barbarella. And Sam didn't do such a bad job with his audition after all...
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Sam meets Barbarella, who offers him a job, and Nico is in luck as well.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Annie is bereft as a brand new future awaits Sam, and she worries about being left out. But he promises her that she doesn't have anything to worry about.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Flora tells us about her love of theater, what it means to her, and how it helped her overcome her shyness.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Step inside the world of the Orion Conspiracy, a fictionalized (or is it?) documentary produced and directed by Seb Janiak. Part One will leave you asking questions, and eagerly anticipating the next installment.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Part Two of this “documentary” takes us further into the world of unidentified flying objects and government cover-ups. According to the film’s creator, “This film is neither a work of fiction, nor a documentary. Forget the words ‘esoteric’ or ‘fantastic,’ here we’re speaking about reality...”
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
How would you feel if you found out that a government research program could effectively control the climate, remotely and silently destroy anything and everything, and manipulate human behavior? Sound like science fiction? Watch the latest installment of the Orion Conspiracy, and decide for yourself.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
In the final part of this film, we find out what the real motivation is behind the Orion Conspiracy. As it turns out, like so many other things, it’s “all about the Benjamins…”
Need to get more of your conspiracy-theorist fix? Watch the film in HD quality here. After all, “The only new things are those which have been forgotten.”
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
In this new series, Le Jour où tout a basculé (The Day When Everything Turned Upside Down), a mother and son's close relationship is about to change. Enzo, who lives with his mother Murielle, runs into a man with a distinctive tattoo. Determined to track down the man, whom he believes to be his father, he starts an inquiry of his own despite his mother's skepticism.
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