Movie of the month: Les 400 coups

Antoine Doisnel est un adolescent rebelle. Il sait ne pas être "le fils de son père" et surprend un jour sa mère avec un inconnu. Il se met à fuguer puis, récupéré par ses parents, un nouveau départ semble démarrer dans une confiance rétablie. Mais Antoine subit alors une injustice scolaire et les quatre cents coups reprennent de plus belle...

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Movie of the month: Coco avant Chanel

Before rising to the top of Parisian haute couture, Gabrielle Chanel was just a young girl in an orphanage, moonlighting as a cabaret singer. When a liaison with a wealthy heir allows her entrance into French society, she begins to develop her gift for designing while throwing out the restrictive trends that defined women's fashion at the time.

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Movie of the month: Le Prénom

Vincent, la quarantaine triomphante, va être père pour la première fois. Invité à dîner chez Élisabeth et Pierre, sa sœur et son beau-frère, il y retrouve Claude, un ami d’enfance. En attendant l’arrivée d’Anna, sa jeune épouse éternellement en retard, on le presse de questions sur sa future paternité dans la bonne humeur générale... Mais quand on demande à Vincent s’il a déjà choisi un prénom pour l’enfant à naître, sa réponse plonge la famille dans le chaos.

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TV show of the month: Kaboul Kitchen (Saison 1: premier épisode et plus)

Kabul, Afghanistan, 2005. George Bush is President of the United States, Jacques Chirac is President of France and Jacky is master of his own domain, the "Kaboul Kitchen." It's a free-spirited place where sex, booze and the Taliban collide and it's the only place where expats can enjoy a swimming pool in the heart of the Afghan capital.
Épisode 1: Jacky is dealing with a booze shortage for his restaurant when his estranged daughter arrives in Kabul for humanitarian work.

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Movie of the month: Demain (Tomorrow) - documentary

Faced with a sense of powerlessness in the face of growing evidence of a coming mass human extinction, Melanie Laurent (Inglorious Bastards) and activist Cyril Dion travel to ten countries where grassroots pioneers are reinventing their economies and democracies. From Detroit, where urban farms have transformed a dying city, to Copenhagen, where nearly 70% of the energy is renewable, to Kuttambakkan in India, where participative democracy allows different castes to work together, and to other communities around the world.

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Movie of the month: La Môme

A swirling, impressionistic portrait of one of France's immortal icons, showing her rise from the brothels of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls. Although her charisma and extraordinary voice opened many doors for her, Piaf also faced great personal loss and drug addiction, all of which she funneled into her vocalizations to dazzle audiences in the process. Starring Marion Cotillard

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