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French box office favorite "The Intouchables" to hit SA!

An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust and human possibility, "The Intouchables" has broken box office records in France and across Europe. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicap millionaire (Francois Cluzet) and his street smart ex-con caretaker (Omar Sy), the film depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humour between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common. Directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, the film was nominated for a total of nine 2012 César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, including Best Picture, and won Best Actor for breakout star Omar Sy. It also won 7 international awards, and was seen by over 50 millions viewers across the globe.

One of the very first maps of South Africa on unique display in Cape Town

Set in the Iziko South African Museum of Cape Town, an exhibition dedicated to French explorer and cartographer François Le Vaillant foregrounds the man's multi-dimensional legacy as naturalist and social critic. Recognised as the first significant modern ornithologist, François le Vaillant spent the years 1781 to 1784 in southern Africa. He created a window on the region through his writings, watercolours and maps that vividly depict both nature and human interaction at that time.

"Waowh": an exceptional collection of Francophone authors translated into English now available to SA audiences

"Waowh" is the name of a project started by Dibuka, the French media centre in Johannesburg, aiming to make discover Francophone contemporary literature to SA audiences. A work in progress, the collection is already the biggest in its genre in South Africa, with translations into English of such big names of Francophone literature as Michel Houellebecq, Alain Mabanckou, Marie Darrieussecq or Leïla Marouane. But the project does not stop at literature in itself: a collection of French comics is also under construction, with the likes of Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis, Chicken with Plums...) and David B. already available. Please help yourself!

The "Social Landscape Project" final exhibition opens at the Bus Factory (Jo'burg)

South Africa, a photogenic country per se, has inspired the famous French photography festival "Les Rencontres d’Arles" to produce, in partnership with the Johannesburg-based Market Photo Workshop, an original exhibition on landscapes. Called "Show us our Land and Transition", the exhibition will open its doors on Friday the 24th of November at the Bus Factory in Newtown (Jo'burg).

Parts of celeb French writer Michel Houellebecq's work translated in Afrikaans

A new book presents the translation into Afrikaans of a selection of eighty poems by Michel Houellebecq, along with two essays. Published by Hond, the translation was done by Catherine du Toit, a lecturer the University of Stellenbosch, and her French third year students; constituting both a literary and an educational linked to present and future research possibilities. Arguably the most famous French writer alive, Michel Houellebecq is a complex artist – ambiguous, ironic, multifaceted. On the one hand his work is cutting, cruel, sexually explicit, abject. On the other hand, he writes with rare compassion, intimate and attentive to the suffering of the aged, the fragile, the imperfect, the vanquished.

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