Welcome to my new collection of posts, the place every month I’ll be sharing my favorite French discoveries, from movies and books to musicians and (in fact) something and every thing food-related.

Hope you take pleasure in studying! 🙂

1. Institut Français

My cousin purchased me membership final Christmas for the Institut Français in London, which is a French cultural centre in South Kensington with the most important French library within the UK(!!)

I’ve popped in just a few instances since then to discover the library and check out their café.

You don’t need to be a member to go to the library, cinema or café, so when you’re searching for the right approach to whereas away just a few hours in central London, you’ve come to the appropriate place 🙂

Have a learn of my submit right here to search out out extra about why you must go to the Institut Français!

2. Le Prénom

The Institut Français has an enormous number of DVDs accessible to borrow from their library, so once I was final there, I picked up Le Prénom to observe at dwelling.

It was tailored by writers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière from their play of the identical title, which was first carried out in 2010.

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Recognized in English as What’s in a Identify?, the movie takes place at a household dinner. Hosts Pierre and Élisabeth (identified for an inexplicable cause as Babou to her nearest and dearest) have invited alongside her brother Vincent and his spouse Anna, in addition to Élisabeth’s greatest buddy Claude.

Shortly after Vincent arrives, he drops a bombshell: he and Anna expect their first youngster.

Whereas the opposite visitors congratulate him, ready for Anna who continues to be to reach, he confirms that they’ve already chosen the newborn’s title, and challenges the others to guess what it’s.

And when Vincent finally reveals what he and Anna are planning to name their youngster, all the different visitors are shocked into silence.

Singer Patrick Bruel, who has additionally appeared in a number of different movies in France, performs the clownish Vincent, whereas Guillaume de Tonquédec, additionally seen in French TV collection Fais pas çi, fais pas ça, performs Claude.

For extra movie evaluations, why not have a learn right here of my submit of the very best French movies of the final 10 years?

3. Christine Ferber jam

I first noticed this within the division retailer Galeries Lafayette, once I was in Paris final month. It’s received a HUGE meals corridor, with a number of cabinets – as you possibly can see from the photograph beneath – only for jam 😍

For as soon as, my greed was crushed by my widespread sense (I feel?) I made a decision to not purchase a jar in Paris, anxious that it could break on the way in which again and I’d find yourself jam-less and with a suitcase coated in glass and smelling of berries – obvs not best, as I’m positive you’ll agree.

So I took just a few deep breaths, gathered up my final vestiges of willpower and waited till I used to be safely again in Blighty to get my fingers on a jar, which I discovered this month in Poilâne bakery in London.

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Christine Ferber, who’s often known as the ‘Jam Fairy’ for her wonderful flavours, additionally has just a few well-known followers – apparently Brad Pitt is reasonably keen on the jam, which she makes at her dwelling in Niedermorschwir, on the French-German border. Flavours embody wild rose jam, raspberry and elderflower jam and orange, mango and keenness fruit marmalade.

You will discover the jams on-line right here when you’re primarily based in Britain, and right here when you’re in america. In London, you can even discover them in Selfridges meals corridor, Pierre Hermé’s macaron store in Knightsbridge and Poilâne bakery proper subsequent to Victoria coach station.

Should you’re searching for extra scrumptious French meals spots in London, you will discover my submit on French bakeries in London right here.

Are you additionally a fan of Christine Ferber jam? Let me know within the feedback beneath – I’d love to listen to what you suppose! 🙂

4. Dans le Jardin de L’Ogre

The photograph above leads me neatly onto my subsequent February discover – Dans le Jardin de L’Ogre, the good début novel from French writer Leïla Slimani.

Take a look at my evaluations of Dans le Jardin de L’Ogre and Chanson Douce right here and right here.

Though neither ebook has been translated into English thus far, it seems to be like we received’t have to attend too lengthy for a translation.

After Slimani’s newest novel Chanson Douce received the Prix Goncourt, certainly one of France’s most prestigious literary awards, in 2016, the international rights to her novels have been snapped up.

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5. Spin

Final however not least, we come to Spin, a TV collection that’s the Gallic model of Borgen or Home of Playing cards.

Earlier this month, I went to the Institut Français for a screening of the primary episode of the newest collection of Spin, which you’ll watch within the U.Ok. on Channel 4’s 4OD web site from mid-March.

To seek out out extra about Spin, identified in France as Les Hommes de L’Ombre, have a learn of my submit right here.

How about you? What are your favorite French finds?

Let me know within the feedback beneath!

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