Summer Reading Film List 2015-2

Summer Reading 2015
Films Suggérés
Devoir : Choisissez UN film de cette liste. Soyez certains que le film est en français avec les sous-titres
en anglais. Répondez aux questions données.
L’argent de poche (Small Change) : vignettes featuring the youth of a small town in France ;
Directed by François Truffaut, one of the all-time great film directors of France
Les parapluies de Cherbourg (musicale ; love story set during war time in France)
La gloire de mon père (My Father’s Glory) : Family in Provence ; adventures of a young boy ;
father/son relationship
Amélie : creative story about a young woman and the way she chooses to live her life…involves
romance and intrigue ; very creative direction
Trois hommes et un couffin : 3 Men and a Cradle ; Original version in French (American version
wasn’t as clever) Comedy about 3 men who take on a small child
Les Triplettes de Belleville : you have to LOVE animation ; hardly any dialogue ; very quirky
Monsieur Ibrahim : great « coming of age » story ; friendship between a shopkeeper and a
young boy
La Boum : girl turns 16 and has a Boum ! (party)
Diabolo Menthe (Peppermint Soda) : teenage friendship story
Ma vie en rose : My life in Pink : Don’t confuse this with the one below ; young boy likes to
dress as a girl ; amazing story about family and society
La vie en rose : Edith Piaf’s life ; Marion Cotillard has the star role and wins an Oscar for it !
Jean de Florette : set in Provence ; drama about evil and greed !
*Manon des Sources (Sequel—see Jean de Florette before this one !)
Ponette : young girl (6 years old) has to come to terms with the death of her mother ; sad !
Au revoir les enfants : set during WWII ; Jewish school boy gets shelter from a school during the
Occupation ; beautiful, sad tale based on real events
Sugar Cane Alley: (Rue Cases Negres) Set in Martinique; family story about living and working
on a sugar cane plantation
Paper Wedding: like Green Card
Les 400 coups (400 blows): Truffaut film about the difficulty of growing up
L’Enfant Sauvage (Wild Child) : child raised in the woods and then comes to “civilization”;
Truffaut again
A la folie, pas de tout (He loves me. He loves me not) : light love story
Le Papillon (The Butterfly : Be careful ! There is a Spanish film by the same title!!!! This one is about a
young girl’s special relationship with a “grandfather” figure who teaches her life lessons)
A la mode: about fashion industry
8 Femmes (Film noir) : a « who done-it » kind of film with music
Joyeux Noël (WW1—Christmas truce on the battlefield (Note: if you have watched for a Religious
Studies class, choose another film!!)
Etre et Avoir (Teacher with a class of 10 students)
Dîner des Cons (un film comique)
Blame it on Fidel (young girl reacts to her parents new lifestyle)
Intouchables: recent film about paraplegic man and friendship with his caregiver
(not to be confused with The Intouchables)
My Afternoons with Margeurite
The Girl from Paris
The Hedgehog
Paris, Je t’aime
Sarah’s Key
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Coco Avant Chanel
Around a Small Mountain
La Haine
Le Havre
A toi de jouer
Les Choristes
Cyrano de Bergerac
Entre les murs
Les Glaneuses
Diva