On Screen This Week

Widow Clicquot :

Sunday, 22 December at 12.30  and then from February 6th.
Papamoa Luxe:  Sunday 22 December at 1.05pm

Widow Clicquot is based on the true story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century. After her husband’s untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (Bennett) flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she defies her critics and revolutionizes the champagne industry to become one of the world’s first great entrepreneurs. (In English)


Delicious  :  Sunday December 22 on the Maori Channel at 8.40pm

France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising talented young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his noble master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first ever restaurant.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwtTIeaXqA

À l’aube de la Révolution Française, Pierre Manceron, cuisinier audacieux mais orgueilleux, est limogé par son maître le duc de Chamfort. La rencontre d’une femme étonnante, qui souhaite apprendre l’art culinaire à ses côtés, lui redonne confiance en lui et le pousse à s’émanciper de sa condition de domestique pour entreprendre sa propre révolution. Ensemble, ils vont inventer un lieu de plaisir et de partage ouvert à tous : le premier restaurant. Une idée qui leur vaudra clients et des ennemis.

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris  : Wednesday 25th December on TVNZ 1 at 8.55pm

In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one. She embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook — but the very future of the House of Dior.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO9JcPbbmAA

Dans le Londres de l’après-guerre, Ada Harris, une femme de ménage veuve, tombe follement amoureuse d’une robe Dior accrochée dans la chambre d’une de ses riches clientes, décidant qu’elle devait en avoir une à elle. Après avoir travaillé pour lever des fonds afin de poursuivre son rêve, elle se lance dans une aventure à Paris qui changera non seulement sa propre vision, mais l’avenir même de la Maison Dior.

DVDs to Lend Out

I have approximately 120 French DVDs that anyone who is still able to view DVDs is most welcome to borrow. There are comedies and dramas, recent and older films, famous actors and less famous. All are subtitled in English.

Let me know if you don’t have, but would like, the catalogue and then make your choice.
shelley@lovefrench.nz  or ph 07 578 9416.  No charge.

Au petit écran – on the Small Screen

Netflix :  Lots of excellent French series & films to suit all tastes.

Library Movie Streaming:
All you need is a Tauranga City library card and the internet and you will be able to access over a thousand films and documentaries via Beamafilm, or classical music, concerts, ballets ,documentaries, artist portraits and education programmes via Medici TV.  All access is free.
For more info: https://library.tauranga.govt.nz/digital-library/streaming
PS: The library also has real books and, in particular, a French novel section.

TV NZ OnDemand : has a number of French movies in their Foreign Language section:
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/categories/foreign-language