Films et le festival de Cannes
Movie time!
Le festival de Cannes is one of the most famous film festivals in the world, and it takes place every May in the beautiful south of France.
Today's issue of Lawless French à fond is all about movies and movie festivals.
Table of Contents
🎥 Lessons
Movie Terms
Lights! Camera! Action (verbs)! Learn French vocabulary related to movies, cinemas, and the Cannes film festival.
Idioms 💬
Here's an expression to talk about a favorite movie, another to talk about a successful movie, and one more that inspired the title of a very famous French movie.
Listening
Practice listening with this variety of audio articles about movies and film festivals.
Le Festival de Cannes, un peu d'histoire B2
Festival de Cannes, au-delà des marches B1
Le cinéma français et ses remakes américains B2
Le Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville B1
Parler d'un film en français A2
Festival International du Film Francophone B1
Of course, not everyone likes the same movies, but here are a few favorites 💌 chosen by me and my friends at Progress with Lawless French.
🙋 A2 - B1 - B2 ?
These are 3 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.
Reading
Learn more about the wonderful world of cinema with these sites:
Festival de Cannes (site officiel)
La Fédération Nationale des Cinémas Français
Meilleurs films de tous les temps selon les spectateurs (Allociné)
Writing
Writing challenges and dictées are two types of self-scoring exercises available to Premium Progress with Lawless French subscribers.
Writing challenges (translation)
Movie Date A2
Dictées (transcription)
Movie Night A1
Quiz Time
Test your French with some movie-themed gapfills.
Le cinéma, c'est quoi ? (vocab)
Ma passion pour le cinéma (vocab)
Retourner au cinéma (devoir/pouvoir/vouloir in future)
Les citations célèbres de Star Wars (assorted grammar)
Juste pour rigoler
Dîner de cons is one of my favorite movies of all time. It has some wonderful word play, is hilarious from beginning to end, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you haven't seen it - or even if you have - here is one particularly funny scene.
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