With watching Le Passé (The Past) comes great suffering.
How readily this passage applies to the experience of watching Le Passé.
And my cultural guilt has only intensified as Twitter reminds me hourly that my colleagues and friends are finding deep satisfaction in reading "The Pale King" or attending "Gatz" or watching "Le Quattro Volte".
Soon I was hooked, watching Le Grand Boucle ('the big loop') at obscure hours on digital channels, and reading cycling autobiographies whose every page dripped with tales of sweat, blood and epic suffering.
"Those who a few decades ago saw the Jews as the enemy now use Muslims, saying, 'They are among us, but they will never be like us, will never share our values.' " Some French intellectuals on the left have been watching Le Pen with a combination of awe and trepidation.
Hanna Kowalska, 26, Polish & an UN interpreter in Geneva, watches them covertly, from the end of the dock or from behind the pages of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga; everyone watches les Boches-they act as if they won the war.
Though there is outrage at bonus payments in firms laying off workers, bosses' pay in France is not that extravagant, and the income gap between the top 10% and the bottom 10% is far smaller than in Britain or America.Indeed, with a mix of amusement and self-satisfaction, the French have watched les Anglo-Saxons start to sound, well, increasingly French.
Guy Noves's Toulouse can always switch on the backline razzle but to watch les rouges et noirs and Biarritz apply the squeeze on Leinster and Munster in their respective semi-finals was to appreciate classically‑applied, dynamic forward power of the highest order.
To watch Le Quai des Brumes is to marvel at Gabin – "the type every Frenchman enjoys drinking red wine with," said Duvivier – who stipulated from the mid-1930s this his films include a sequence in which he committed a murder that would be the catalyst for his downfall.
You can watch Le Meur's recent conversation with TechCrunch TV's Andrew Keene here.
My father, my son and I wrapped up warm to watch Le Azzurrine (the Little Blues) in action.
