Word: nuits
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...Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped, both hits on the foreign art-house circuit. French novelists are focusing increasingly on the here and now: one of the big books of this year's literary rentrée, Yasmina Reza's L'Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night) is about Sarkozy's recent electoral campaign. Another standout, Olivier Adam's A l'Abri de Rien (In the Shelter of Nothing), concerns immigrants at the notorious Sangatte refugee camp. France's Japan-influenced bandes dessinées (comic-strip) artists have made their country...
...about Hollywood's hegemony, but they are sensible hosts. They know that English is the lingua franca of the entertainment world, and they will indulge your ignorance of their language. This is a big change from the early years; it's said that Eric Rohmer's divinely talky Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's) in 1969 was the first competition film shown with English subtitles. Now all films in the official selection - the competition, Un Certain Regard and the special selections - are shown in English or with English subtitles. In the film market English is even more...
...dance, and have a good time with one another. According to many girls, if they happen to meet some guys in the process, that’s fine but of secondary focus, while men seem to be on a more focused hunt for the femme du jour (de la nuit...
...Arrivée à New York," currently playing to sellout audiences at Paris' Gaité Montparnasse theater, is based on Céline's classic 1932 novel "Voyage au Bout de la Nuit." Wearing a worn jacket and a grey scarf, Luchini emerges onto a nearly empty stage. He peers into the distance with his round hazel eyes and, for the next 80 minutes, holds the audience spellbound with the first-person narrative of a young Frenchman's voyage to America on the eve of the Depression. He takes Céline's persona from the scary, impersonal streets...