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Happy Easter, from all of us at Purefrancenow.
Easter’s here and Spring is just round the corner! (we hope!!)
So, all of us from Purefrancenow wish everyone a very Happy Easter and Joyeuse Pâques!
May your Easter eggs be full of chocolate, and the Easter Bunny brings you lots!
Best wishes.
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4th International Festival of Animation in the Roannais.
This month in Roanne, Roannais, celebrates the 4th International Festival of Animation at the Espace Renoir. This is a cinema location in Roanne which specialises in featuring Art films, past classic productions, and special events.
The festival event includes an International Competition for best animation. These are short films of 2 to 20 minutes maximum produced by animators from countries around the world such as America, Japan, Scotland, Ireland, England, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Canada, Peru, Estonia, France, Korea, and many others.
These are remarkable, sometimes bizarre, highly creative productions. Thought-provoking, funny, and philosophic, and most certainly clever and imaginative.
Espace Renoir provides an intellectual and educational approach to film production and creators, often introducing the actual animator or member of the team to talk direct to the audience about the nuances of the production.
When we visited the event this March one of there were two English animator specialists enrolled on the Judging panel for the competition – Simon Jacobs, Director of Photography,who worked with Aardman in Bristol on ‘Chicken Run’ by Peter Lord and Nick Park. He also worked on films for Tim Burton as part of the Photo team for the recent ‘Frankenweenie’, amongst others.
Andy Symanowski, English Animator and Director, also presented at the competition. He worked on episodes of Aardman’s ‘Shaun The Sheep’, including ‘Chicken Run’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and many other’s.
Later this month, Espace Renoir is featuring Tim Burton’s full-feature animation film, ‘Frankenweenie’, and Simon Jacobs will introduce the film as an original member of the team for this fantastical production.
Discover the secret passageways of Lyon.
We should really say, “Discover the traboules of Lyon”
Ancient doorways through old, dark alleyways for your discovery and exploration.
These alleyways, or traboules, as they are locally known, are one of the most original aspects of the architecture and identity of Lyon.
Located in the district of the Old Town or Vieux-Lyon for the most part, the traboules of Lyon are a feature which is unique to this beautiful city.
These traboules are passageways built between buildings.
In order to have as much space to use as possible, in ancient times, there were very few cross streets. The solution was to build traboules which allowed people to pass from one street to the next without having to make a detour.
This simple and practical solution would also be adopted later on the slopes of the Croix Rousse area of Lyon.
There are many traboules to be seen in Vieux-Lyon (Old Lyon) you will find them if you take a stroll around Place du Gouvernement, rue Saint Jean, Quai Rolland or rue de la Bombarde.
Vieux Lyon. This Renaissance district, listed by Unesco, is the largest area of its kind in France…
This unique area of Gothic and Renaissance architecture has been chosen by UNESCO as World Heritage.
It covers 24 hectares along the banks of the river Saone. Old Lyon’s urban development mainly took place in the 15th and 16th centuries.
After visiting the gothic cathedral, wander through the narrow cobbled streets and “traboules”…
These famous covered passageways going from one street to the next via corridors through houses hide superbly renovated architectural treasures: inner courtyards, galleries “à l’italienne”, spiral staircases, Romanesque features, and much more.