Consultez régulièrement cette page pour connaître le prochain programme “French Film&School” qui aura lieu.
Chaque année, des projections cinématographique pour les scolaires sont organisées par les services culturels du consulat à San Francisco, Sacramento et Seattle.
La dernière projection a eu lieu cet octobre.
The San Francisco Film Society Education Program
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Cultural Services – Consulate General of France in San Francisco
Ont présenté cette année,
lors de la première édition du Festival du Film Français
“French Cinema Now”
Chaque automne, le Consulat Général de France à San Francisco en collaboration avec le Programme Education de la San Francisco Film Society présente “French Film and School”. Ce programme a pour but d’exposer les lycéens qui apprennent le français à la culture française à travers le cinéma. Le programme a pour but de développer l’interculturel, d’améliorer les compétences en langue, de se familiariser avec l’analyse cinématographique et découvrir des films de qualité. Parmi les films présentés les années précédentes, nous pouvons citer Les Brodeuses d’Eléonore Faucher ou encore Cyrano de Bergerac, le film inspiré de l’oeuvre d’Edmond Rostand.
En octobre 2008, le programme a été très fier de présenter à près de 600 lycéens de la Baie:
Entre les murs (The Class)
Directed by Laurent Cantet (France 2008, 129 min)
Palme d’Or au Festival de Cannes 2008.
A fully sustained immersion in the academics, attitudes and frequent altercations of a group of junior high school students, The Class is an adaptation of Francois Begaudeau’s 2006 novel, Entre les murs, documenting a year in the life of a classroom. The film’s roving HD cameras never once leave the school grounds and only rarely leave the classroom, which is presented here as a microcosm of cultural, intellectual and aspirational differences. Begaudeau himself plays teacher Francois Marin, a handsome, charismatic thirty-something whose playful, bristling approach seems an appropriate way of dealing with his often unruly and inattentive students. While the class has its share of diligent, well-behaved pupils like Asian immigrant Wei (Wei Huang), who speaks assuredly despite his less-than-perfect French, it’s the troublemakers who leave the most vivid impression. In a terrific screen debut that leaves plenty of room for his co-stars to shine, Begaudeau comes across as a likeable, admirably confident but flawed authority figure. The Class excels as both a character study and an inquiry into the proper parameters of education and discipline that will resonate in urban schools on both sides of the Atlantic.
http://www.hautetcourt.com/fiche.php?pkfilms=142
Note: Mild profanity
Suggested Subject Areas: French, Peer Issues, Political Science, Social Studies
Grades: 9-12
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Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (Welcome to the Sticks)
Directed by Dany Boon (France 2008, 106 min)
In this time of non-stop election coverage we are often painfully reminded of how the United States is perceived, as a nation divided up into red and blue states. Here in California we to can sometimes be at fault as we compare our West Coast lives with our Midwestern neighbors. The United States is not the only country in the world to deal with regional stereotypes within it’s own borders. Join us with your students to give them a light hearted look at a problem that plagues the citizens of the world.
This little charmer came out of nowhere this spring to become the most successful French film of all time. In fact, nearly half the French population (over 25 million viewers) has seen it, and an American remake is already in the works. The only movie more successful in French cinema history was a little film named Titanic. Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis is a popular and familial comedy, entirely based on the exploitation of a very strong French cliché about the North region, and its people. Post office manager Phillipe longs for a transfer to the sunny, sophisticated South of France. But when his attempt to cheat his way into a transfer backfires, he is instead sent to Nord-Pas de Calais, which for most of the French might as well be a frozen version of Hell. This northern province—an area roughly equivalent to our deep Appalachia in its perceived absence of cultural elegance—is known for its chilly dampness, drunken, unemployable population, terrible food and impenetrable dialect known as Ch’timi. But Philippe soon learns to love these hicks so much that he must devise a strategy—with the help of the natives—to keep his left-behind wife from discovering his secret. Directed and co written by two-time acting César nominee Dany Boon, who also stars (and who is himself a proud Ch’ti), the film is a warm and uproarious send-up of regional prejudices and an embrace of inclusiveness that travels marvelously well to our side of the Atlantic, due to in part to its clever deployment of subtitles, which superbly translates the dense linguistic thicket of otherwise-très-Gallic gags.
http://www.chtinn.com/
Note: Mild profanity
Suggested Subject Areas: French, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Social Studies
Grades: 9-12
Ce qu’en ont pensé les étudiants:
“Le film ‘Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis était vachement amusant, c’était une comédie pas stupide, c’était de l’humour intelligent. Les films américains d’humour sont trop stupides des fois, comme le film ‘Dumb&Dumber’. Mais ‘Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis’ était l’humour comme ‘Saturday Night Live’, où l’humour vient du dialogue, pas seulement des actions des acteurs. Le film aussi était parfait avec Dany Boon, qui joue l’idiot très bien.“ “Le film est vraiment drôle et très amusant. Les acteurs sont tellement professionnels. L’humour de Kad Merad et Dany Boon est constamment présent. Aussi, l’histoire du film est très intéressante. Son mensonge m’a beaucoup plu – il dit qu’il est possible qu’on peut trouver le bonheur à tous les endroits, et avec tout le monde.“Elèves de Campolindo High School ayant assisté à la projection.
