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Week Two

 

Sketch - Le zizi tout dûr

The humourist Laurent Baffie, and a good example of a particularly refreshing type of French humour.

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Ionescu - La leçon

... and the voice is Ionescu himself!

 

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Film extract - Dîner de cons

Because English is a highly specific language where we have one word for one thing, we find French - especially rude French - difficult to grasp. 'Can I use that word without offending people?' is always the question. French swearwords are contextual, and confusing.

But Dîner de cons is a magnificently funny film. Here is the section where M. Pignon makes a telephone call on behalf of the hapless Pierre Brochant to a friend who rejoices in the name Juste Leblanc.

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Martin Winckler: Le camion de Noël

If Winckler is as good a doctor as he is a storywriter, his patients are lucky

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