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Attila Marcel will open the French Film Festival
The French Film Festival gets the keys to the door as it celebrates its 21st edition in 2013, running from November 7 to 30.
The festival opened with a gala screening of Sylvain Chomet's first live action film Attila Marcel. The director of The Illusionist was a guest of the festival.
Other highlights include screenings of a restored version of Lola, while in London, critic Phillip French will introduce his favourite French film, Bertrand Tavernier’s Life And Nothing But.
The Festival's key venues are: Glasgow Film Theatre, Edinburgh Filmhouse, London CinéLumière, Warwick Arts Centre, Dundee DCA, Inverness Eden Court, Kirkcaldy Adam Smith, Aberdeen Belmont and Bo’ness Hippodrome.
View Films by Strand:
- Classic
- Discovery Horizons
- Documentaries
- Family
- Panorama Horizons
- Preview
- Shorts
- Tribute to Louis De Funès
- Tribute to Maurice Pialat
View previous years coverage of the French Film Festival festival:
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A man and the woman he split up with three years previously meet by chance on a plane.
Animated story of a boy who leads a wild existence deep in the forest until the day he discovers civilised life in a neighbouring village and meets a girl who lives there.
A casual theft leads to trouble for a group of young friends.
Love story between a would-be sailor and his childhood friend.
Confined to an asylum, the former mistress of sculptor Auguste Rodin tries desperately to obtain a release.
Portrait of a 17-year-old, who sells her body for cash.
A comedy of misunderstandings.
A musician enters into an amour fou with a younger woman who is on the rebound.
An exhausted women tries to rebuild her life but finds obstacles intentionally placed in the way of her happiness.
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