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‘La Vie en Rose’ for Le Club Français

You walk by the City College Cultural Awareness Center and you see a sign promoting a movie that will be shown in about 10 minutes. You also notice that it’s free, so you walk in.

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As you enter the room, you hear light chatter and smell the faint aroma of popcorn and Starbucks coffee. When you turn the corner, you see seven
people, the majority of whom appear to be 30 years old and up, quietly talking, a table full of shirts for sale by Le Club Français and there’s that popcorn and coffee on another table, with some candy and soda. All the food and drinks are free.
As “La Vie en Rose”, which garnered a best actress Oscar in 2008, begins to flicker through the DVD player into a medium-sized screen, five more people trickle in.  Throughout the movie, occasional chatter and small chuckles are heard-as well as the club adviser, Madame Genevieve Flett, occasionally clapping her hands and cheering for the characters and the songs.
The film portrays the tragic life of French icon and singer, Edith Piaf. Piaf was born in 1915 in Paris. She entertained people on the streets of Paris until she was offered a contract to sing professionally.
She eventually became world famous, but died with many debts to be paid by her second husband.
By the time the movie ends, a total of 12 people, which includes club advisers Andrew and Genevieve Flett, have shown up for the movie.
City College student Shyeasha Robins is one such person who just happened to be walking by and saw the sign for the showing of “La Vie en Rose”. Since she wanted to see it anyway, she decided to go to the free movie at the last minute.
“It was sort of emotional,” says Robins. “Her life and when her husband died in the plane crash.”
Other students came for contrary reasons.
“I came to be more exposed to French,” says City College student Jefferson
McGee. “It was worth coming.”
Le Club Français, the French Club, chose to show “La Vie en Rose” not only because it was a French film about a French icon, but also because they like to show French movies, according to Madame Flett, and the movie was on a Saturday to allow all students the chance to attend.
“Le Club Français is dedicated to providing an opportunity for both French students and people interested in French culture to experience many aspects of that culture,” says Madame Flett.
The students present and the Fletts agreed that the overall experience was positive and like Piaf’s classic song title, “Non, je ne regrette rien”, felt no regrets.

You walk by the City College Cultural Awareness Center and you see a sign promoting a movie that will be shown in about 10 minutes. You also notice that it’s free, so you walk in.

As you enter the room, you hear light chatter and smell the faint aroma of popcorn and Starbucks coffee. When you turn the corner, you see seven people, the majority of whom appear to be 30 years old and up, quietly talking, a table full of shirts for sale by Le Club Français and there’s that popcorn and coffee on another table, with some candy and soda. All the food and drinks are free.

As “La Vie en Rose”, which garnered a best actress Oscar in 2008, begins to flicker through the DVD player into a medium-sized screen, five more people trickle in.  Throughout the movie, occasional chatter and small chuckles are heard-as well as the club adviser, Madame Genevieve Flett, occasionally clapping her hands and cheering for the characters and the songs.

The film portrays the tragic life of French icon and singer, Edith Piaf. Piaf was born in 1915 in Paris. She entertained people on the streets of Paris until she was offered a contract to sing professionally.

She eventually became world famous, but died with many debts to be paid by her second husband.

By the time the movie ends, a total of 12 people, which includes club advisers Andrew and Genevieve Flett, have shown up for the movie.

City College student Shyeasha Robins is one such person who just happened to be walking by and saw the sign for the showing of “La Vie en Rose”. Since she wanted to see it anyway, she decided to go to the free movie at the last minute.

“It was sort of emotional,” says Robins. “Her life and when her husband died in the plane crash.”

Other students came for contrary reasons.

“I came to be more exposed to French,” says City College student Jefferson McGee. “It was worth coming.”

Le Club Français, the French Club, chose to show “La Vie en Rose” not only because it was a French film about a French icon, but also because they like to show French movies, according to Madame Flett, and the movie was on a Saturday to allow all students the chance to attend.

“Le Club Français is dedicated to providing an opportunity for both French students and people interested in French culture to experience many aspects of that culture,” says Madame Flett.

The students present and the Fletts agreed that the overall experience was positive and like Piaf’s classic song title, “Non, je ne regrette rien”, felt no regrets.

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