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Lost in Frenchlation’s September screenings in Paris and Biarritz

Cinephiles rejoice - the film club that screens French films with English subtitles returns this week after a summer break - and it has expanded out of Paris.

Published: 31 August 2022 14:21 CEST
Lost in Frenchlation's September screenings in Paris and Biarritz
(Photo: Sebastien Bozon / AFP)

Anglophones in Paris have been able to enjoy Lost in Frenchlation’s regular offerings – but, this month, English speakers in Biarritz can also enjoy some French cinematic culture.

Five films are on the docket in Paris in September;

Rodéo, directed by Lola Quivoron, screens on September 2nd, at Publicis Cinema, avenue des Champs-Élysées. Members of the film crew will attend the screening.

Tickets are €13 full price, €8 for students and all other concessions

Jean Eustache’s cult 1973 masterpiece La Maman et la Putain screens on Thursday, September 8th, at L’Entrepôt Cinema, 7 Rue Francis de Pressensé, Paris 14, in the presence of a surprise guest. 

Tickets, available from the cinema, are €8.50 full price; €7 for students and all other concessions.

Noémie Merlant’s Mi Iubita Mon Amour follows a woman’s pre-marital romance with a young man she meets during a bachelorette holiday in Romania. 

Tickets for the screening on Thursday, September 15th at Luminor Cinema, Luminor, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4, are €10 full price; €8 for students and all other concessions.

Prior to the screening, a two-hour walking tour of Saint Germain des Prés, highlighting influential women writers is available in collaboration with Women of Paris, for an additional €15. Full details for the tour are available here

Dust off your dancing shoes for Lost in Frenchlation’s big event on Friday, September 23rd, comedy Rumba La Vie, directed by and starring Franck Dubosc.

Prior to the film, which starts at 8pm, there’s a toe-tapping performance by and San.TooR dance company. Tickets for the screening – and the dance show preview – at the Club de l’Étoile Cinema, Club de l’Étoile, 14 Rue Troyon, Paris 8, are €15 full price; €13 for students and all other concessions

The final Lost in Frenchlation-ed film of the month is La Dérive des Continents, directed by Lionel Baier, on Thursday, September 29th.

The evening starts with drinks before the screening, followed by a Q&A session with Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin, who plays Albert in the drama. Tickets for the evening at L’Arlequin, 76 Rue de Rennes, Paris 6, are €10 full price; €8 concessions.

In south-west France, the Cinéma Le Royal, in Biarritz, will show Mi Iubita mon amour on September 8th, and Rodéo on September 22nd.

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FOOD AND DRINK

Paris bakers attempt world’s longest baguette

A dozen French bakers have set their minds to beating the world record for the world's longest baguette - hoping to join a long list of French records from stretchiest aligot to biggest tarte tatin.

Published: 3 May 2024 13:36 CEST
Paris bakers attempt world's longest baguette

On Sunday, 12 Paris bakers will attempt to beat the world record for the longest baguette, as part of the Suresnes Baguette Show, which was organised by the French confederation of bakers and pastry chefs. 

The current record is held by Italian bakers, who in 2019 baked a 132.6 m long baguette – roughly the height of the Great Pyramid at Giza (which is now about 138.5 metres tall). 

By contrast, the standard French baguette is between 60 and 70 centimetres long, and roughly 5-7cm in diametre.

The French boulangers will have some challenges – they’ll need to knead all of the dough and then put it together on site. The only ingredients allowed are flour, water, yeast and salt. In order to count, the bread will have to be at least 5cm thick across its entire length.

According to the press release for the event, cooking the giant baguette will take at least eight hours.

Once it’s prepared, it will be up to the judges from the Guinness Book of World Records to determine if the record was beaten or not.

Then, the baguette will be cut up and Nutella will be spread across it, with part of it shared with the public and the other part handed out to homeless people.

What about other French world records?

There are official competitions every year to mark the best croissant and baguette, plus plenty of bizarre festivals in towns across France.

The French also like to try their hand at world records. 

Stretchiest aligot – If you haven’t come across aligot before, it’s basically a superior form of cheesy mash – it’s made by mixing mashed potato with butter, garlic, cream and cheese.

The traditional cheese used is Laguiole but you can also use tomme or any cheese that goes stringy when stretched. That stretchiness is very important – it makes aligot is a popular dish for world records. 

In 2020, three brothers managed to stretch the aligot 6.2m, and apparently in 2021 they broke that record too (though unofficially), by adding an extra metre.

READ MORE: 5 things to know about aligot – France’s cheesy winter dish

And in 2023, in Albi in southern France, local media reported that a man had made the world’s largest aligot (not the stretchiest). He reportedly used 200kg of potatoes and 100kg of Aubrac tomme cheese. 

Cheesy pizza – A Lyon-based pizza maker, Benoît Bruel, won a spot in the 2023 Guinness Book of World Records for creating a pizza with 1,001 cheeses on top of it. 

 
 
 
 
 
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Biggest raclette – In March, the city of Saint-Etienne in France claimed the world record for the ‘largest raclette’.

There were 2,236 people who participated, and the raclette involved 620 kg of cheese, 350 kg of cold meat and one tonne of potatoes. 

Largest omelette – Unfortunately, France does not hold this title anymore, though it did in 1994, when the town of Montourtier in the département of Mayenne cooked up an omelette on a giant pan with a 13.11m diameter. 

Currently, the title is held by Portugal, according to Guinness. In 2012, the town of Santarém cooked an omelette weighing 7.466 tonnes.

Still, France cooks giant omelettes all the time. Every Easter, the ‘Brotherhood of the Giant Omelette’ cooks up one, cracking thousands of eggs and passing out portions to the people in the town of Bessières.

Largest tarte tatin – The French town of Lamotte-Beuvron also beat a world record in 2019 for making the largest tarte tatin, which weighed 308kg. 

This isn’t the first time the French have experimented with gigantic apple pies. In 2000, the country made history (and the Guinness Book of World Records) for creating an apple pie that measured 15.2m in diameter. It used 13,500 apples and required a crane to be lifted (as shown below).

(Photo by MICHEL HERMANS / AFP)
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