An Assortment of French Movies, Episode 271
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Annie and Elyse love a great assortment of cookies, but they also love a great assortment of French movies, which is what we bring you on today's episode!
One of our listeners asked a thought-provoking question: what French movies portrait France well? And while we were thinking about that, several people pipped in with the name of their favorite French movies.
The thing is, a French person's idea of a great French movie is not the same as what English speakers consider good French movies. The most popular movies in France are mostly silly. French people love nothing more than a good slap-stick comedy!
My American friends love movies like The Hundred-Foot Journey. A feel-good movie that takes place in a mythical version of France. I went to Saint Antonin Noble Val to see where the movie was shot. I recognized nothing that looks like the movie at all. Having said that, Saint Antonin is still a nice place to visit.
Email | Annie's VoiceMap Paris Tour | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Twitter
#joinusinfrance #frenchmovies #frenchculture #travel #podcast
The Assortment of French Movies Discussed in this Episode
We don't present the movies and TV series in any particular order, we just followed our train of thought :-)
Breathless (A bout de souffle)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
A Trip to the Moon (???)
A Very Secret Service (Au service de la France TV Series)
Versailles (TV)
A French Village (TV)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is join us in France episode 271. |
| 0:04.0 | Bonjou, I'm Annie Sergeant and on a typical episode of join us in France, |
| 0:08.0 | I talk with someone who's visited great places in France |
| 0:12.0 | and tell and comes on the podcast to talk about it. |
| 0:15.4 | About once a month I chat with my friend Elise who is a licensed tour guide and a wonderful |
| 0:20.8 | storyteller and she loves to talk about history and art and things like that. |
| 0:25.8 | And some of the episodes is just me, demystifying France because there are a lot of misconceptions |
| 0:32.4 | out there about how France works. |
| 0:35.0 | But on today's episode, I answer a listener's question about French movies. |
| 0:41.0 | And I couldn't have possibly done that without Elise because she's the movie buff between the two of us. |
| 0:47.2 | So a Patreon supporter Justin Mack wanted to know which French movies exemplify genuine French life and several other patrons joined in because this conversation was taking place in the join us in France secret group for Patreon supporters and they |
| 1:06.7 | mentioned French movies that they've enjoyed over the years. |
| 1:10.1 | So I made a list and I sprung it on Elise with no warning because she loves the movies. |
| 1:16.7 | I mean I love funny movies but she loves all movies. |
| 1:20.5 | She will go to art movies and things like historical movies and by historical movies and by historical I mean really old movies that nobody |
| 1:26.8 | watches anyway so she was really great to talk about this show notes for this episode are on |
| 1:34.7 | join us in France.com forward slash 271 the number 271 and if you're planning a |
| 1:41.4 | trip to France, you should check out the site. |
| 1:46.0 | Join us in France.com. It's chockful of great resources. The the way. |
| 2:03.0 | the way. The way. Bonjour Elise! A. Bonjourelise! |
| 2:25.0 | Bonjouini! |
| 2:26.0 | We are together to talk about French cinema. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Annie Sargent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Annie Sargent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.