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La Graine et le mulet - Abdel Kechiche
7.5/10
As a resident of France I was a little surprised by recent article in the Guardian by Jason Solomons about the re-birth of the French film industry in the wake of the nation’s first Palme D’Or winner (’Entre Les Murs’/’The Classroom’) in many a year. Further citing the [...]

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FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
French windows
4/10
In 1994 a law was introduced in France by then culture minister Jacques Toubon protecting the French language. One of the outcomes of this globalisation-resisting move was that two out of five songs on French radio must be sung in la langue maternelle . It was a [...]

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