On Screen This Week


Amelie  :  Wednesday 1st January on the Maori Channel at 8.30pm

Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain :
One of my favourite French movies. If you have never seen it, it’s worth a watch – and, if you have, it’s well worth a re-watch as well.
It tells the story of Amélie Poulain, played by Audrey Tautou, a shy and quirky waitress who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while dealing with her own isolation.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrlQR_KH_nw&t=2s

Amélie, une jeune serveuse dans un bar de Montmartre, passe son temps à observer les gens et à laisser son imagination divaguer. Elle s’est fixé un but : faire le bien de ceux qui l’entourent. Elle invente alors des stratagèmes pour intervenir incognito dans leur existence. Le chemin d’Amélie est jalonné de rencontres : Georgette, la buraliste hypocondriaque ; Lucien, le commis d’épicerie ; Madeleine Wallace, la concierge portée sur le porto et les chiens empaillés ; Raymond Dufayel, son voisin.

Widow Clicquot :

 from February 6th.

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)

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