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MFL DVD Resource
TOPIC LEISURE
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Amelie
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunets fantasy-realist film
    follows
  • a woman, who discovers her true vocation in life.
  • Excerpt from the film 1111 gt 1138
  • Amelie is in the cinema.

3
Amelie
  • Discuss what the advantages are of watching
    films at the cinema, as opposed to at home.
  • Why do you think Amelie enjoys watching the
    people
  • at the cinema? Why do you think she is
    fascinated by peoples reactions?
  • Who is telling this story? Who is watching
    whom?
  • Write a review of the last film you watched in
    three registers.
  • Firstly as an email to a friend. Then as an
    in-school newsletter
  • and finally as an article for a newspaper.

4
Amelie
  • What technical device does the director use in
    this clip?
  • How does this affect the viewer? Have you
    seen this
  • technique used anywhere else in film or on
    TV?
  • In which ways do directors try to manipulate
    audiences?
  • What is the irony of this sequence, and what
    does it make
  • you think about the idea of film in a wider
    context?
  • It has been said that the emotions that film
    produces are
  • sometimes too manufactured or that small
    details are lost,
  • as Amelie suggests. To what extent do you
    agree?

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Au Revoir Les Enfants
  • Au Revoir Les Enfants is Louis Malles film about
    life
  • in a French boarding school during WWII.
  • Excerpt from the film 011052 gt 011310
  • The boys take a break from classes to watch a
    Charlie Chaplin film.

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Au Revoir Les Enfants
  • Describe the scene that you have just watched
    in terms
  • of the leisure activities in wartime France.
  • Write a short comparison with your own leisure
    activities.
  • This film is set over fifty years ago in
    wartime France
  • discuss the contrast between a modern idea of
    leisure
  • and the scene that Malle presents.

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Bienvenue chez les Chtis
  • A French comedy in which a postmaster in Southern
    France
  • tries to get transferred to a remote region in
    Northern France.
  • Excerpt from the film 0040 gt 0219
  • Philippe and his family are driving through the
    south of France after
  • a visit on the Côte dAzur in a town where they
    might move to.

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Bienvenue chez les Chtis
  • Make a weather forecast relating to France.
  • This can be done in any tense (past, present,
    future).
  • Whilst viewing the clip
  • Pick out 3 towns on the map.
  • What do you notice about the geography of France?
  • Do you recognise places where you have been?

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Bienvenue chez les Chtis
  • After viewing the clip go on various websites
    to find out
  • how to get from the south to the north of
    France.
  • Prepare a breakdown of means of transport,
    costs, times.
  • (Try http//maps.google.fr/maps/ms?hlfrieUT
    F8msa2)
  • Write two short paragraphs saying how you
    travelled there
  • and where you went on holiday last summer and
    where you
  • will go next summer (in the south or the
    north of France).
  • OR write two paragraphs comparing a holiday in
    the North
  • of France with one in the South of France
    describing
  • the differences in climate, weather, people,
    (try using
  • comparative and superlative)

10
Joyeux Noël
  • Joyeux Noël is a film about the unofficial World
    War I Christmas
  • truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes
    of French,
  • British and German soldiers.
  • Excerpt from the film 011547 gt 011757
  • The soldiers relax.

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Joyeux Noël
  • What are the recreational activities of the
    soldiers?
  • How do they amuse themselves?
  • What are the comforts and pleasures that they
    have
  • in common? What will they do tomorrow?
  • In groups of three, one British, one French
    and one German,
  • you are playing cards. You still have an hour
    before the end
  • of the cease-fire. Imagine the conversation
    in which everyone
  • expresses his impressions of this special
    day.
  • Will you also speak of your future plans?

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Joyeux Noël
  • On google.fr, search for cease-fire Christmas
    1914.
  • After watching some videos, discuss in class this
    time in history.
  • Imagine you are one of the youngest French
    soldiers.
  • Before you go to bed in the dugout at the end of
  • this Christmas day, you write a letter to your
    parents.
  • What do you tell them? You must include at least
  • a) what you did last night
  • b) what happened today
  • c) what you will do tomorrow
  • d) what your feelings are at this time

13
La Haine
  • La Haine is a French black-and-white film
    written, co-edited,
  • and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is about
    three teenage
  • friends and their struggle to live in the
    banlieues of Paris.
  • Excerpt from the film 0904 gt 1220
  • The boys go to the gym.

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La Haine
  • In this scene we meet the three main
    protagonists together.
  • It appears that the community has burnt down
    their
  • main source of leisure activity in the riots.
  • What does this say about how they must have
    felt?
  • Why do you think they did it?
  • What do you think will happen now?

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La Haine
  • Write down at least two adjectives to describe
    each
  • of the three characters as they appear in
    this scene.
  • What are the main features of the area in
    which they live?
  • Describe the daily routine of the three
    characters presented
  • here OR compare and contrast your local area
    with the area
  • Portrayed in this clip OR imagine that you
    have just been
  • Elected Mayor of this borough describe the
    changes
  • you plan to make and why.
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