Films are an integral art of French culture. France is famous for festivals, most notably the one at Cannes, and for producing edgy movies that are subtitled or dubbed to be replayed around the world.
If you happen to be in the right place at the right time to check out a film festival in [...]
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?”
-Christina Aguilera
(She’ll never live that one down.)
Le Festival de Cannes
As most of us are well aware, the Festival de Cannes is an annual film festival held in the town of (you guessed it!) Cannes, France. The event takes place each year (usually in May) at the [...]
In the States, May Day means classrooms full of elementary school students simultaneously weaving paper baskets, constructing tissue-paper flowers to put inside, and (after school) placing the baskets on a doorstep, ringing the doorbell, and running away while leaving behind the home-made surprise.
This tradition of flower-giving began in France as a way of marking the [...]
Anne has studied and spoken French for over a decade and has lived in both France and Francophone Cameroon. She strives to write lessons that reflect her real experiences and represent the way people really speak.
