Yesterday, safe French box office bet Jean Becker started shooting in Charente-Maritime on his 12th feature: La Tête en Friche (“Uncultivated Head”, working title).

The elderly lady is always engrossed in a book. One day, Germain bluntly sits down next to her and strikes up a conversation. The two begin talking and become friends. While the delicate lady ...

Germain Chazes lives in a caravan at the bottom of his mother's garden and is considered by most to be a happy fool. One day Marguerite, a very cultured old woman, introduces him to the world of books ...

Illiterate Germain meets 90-year-old Margueritte in a park and, thanks to her, learns to read at fifty. As Margueritte gradually loses her sight, Germain promises that, when she can no longer see, he ...

Telly addict Andrew Collins casts his critical eye over New Worlds (above), Klondike, The Trip to Italy, Endeavour and Monkey Planet Last 24 hours Last 24 hours Noah review â 'a preposterous but ...