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Are you dreaming of some French culture but can’t take a holiday there yet?

Escape to France with some of our favourite French films available on Australian streaming services.

The best way to enjoy a film is with a Biologique Recherche face mask and a cup of Love tea, of course!

 

Amelie

Amélie (2001)

Romance/Comedy

Apple TV, SBS on Demand, Prime Video

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love.

 

 

Intouchables

The Intouchables (2011)

Comedy/Drama

Google Play, Ritz at Home

An unusual friendship develops when Driss, a street smart immigrant, is hired to take care of Philippe, a quadriplegic French nobleman.

 

 

Priceless

Priceless (2006)

Romance/Comedy

Prime Video, Apple TV

Jean, a shy waiter who works at a high-end hotel, is mistaken for a young millionaire by the beautiful and intriguing fortune hunter Irene.

 

 

Adele

Blue is the warmest colour (2014)

Romance/Drama

Google Play, Apple TV

Adèle’s life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.

 

 

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The Dinner Game (1998)

Comedy

Google Play, Apple TV, Prime Video

Follow the life of Pierre, an editor, who, every Wednesday, attends a dinner for idiots where everyone brings the dumbest person they could find as a guest

 

 

La Haine

Hate (1996)

Crime/Drama

ACMI

In the hours after a riot that has left their friend comatose, three ethnic youths from a housing project in the Paris suburbs seethe with anger.

 

 

A Prophet

A Prophet (2009)

Crime/Drama

Google Play, Apple TV, Prime Video

This acclaimed crime drama follows Malik El Djebena, a delinquent young Muslim man, who is struggling to get by in a French prison.

 

 

Swimmingpool

The swimming Pool (1969)

Crime/Drama

HBO Max

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion – until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game

 

Here are two of my favourite films, which I’ve seen dozens of times!

The Big Blue is poetic and almost hypnotic. The diving, the ocean, the anxieties, the taste of risk… it’s intense and heavy but also a wonderful ode to freedom. Without forgetting the landscapes and the music. If you like this director, Luc Besson, don’t miss the movies The Professional andThe Fifth Element.

In a completely different genre, my second favoyrite movie is Hey Good Looking! A comedy that makes me smile, my anti-depression film or just to have a good time. The scenario is simple but effective, we laugh, we cry, we sing. These 4 Parisian women are endearing and funny. A beautiful image of the modern woman who does what she can despite the obstacles of everyday life.

 

The Big Blue

The Big Blue (1988)

Apple TV, SBS on Demand, Ritz at Home, Prime Video

The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.

 

 

 

Comme T'y Es Belle

Hey Good Looking! (2006)

Four fun-seeking Jewish women in Paris share their lives between love affairs, a beauty institute under fiscal control, children to raise, an undocumented Moroccan nanny to marry, repeated diets, family and religious holidays to honour, but before being beautiful, their biggest challenge is to be themselves.

 

 

 

 

Bon film!

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