One of this years's finest releases turns out to be this fly-on-the-wall documentary from Nicolas Philibert, about a single-class French village school, which is situated in a remote Auvergne ...

The unlikely worldwide success of a charming documentary film about a French village school - Etre et Avoir (To Be and to Have) - continues to generate legal and financial ructions worthy of ...

Literally the French expression avoir le cul entre deux chaises means "to have one's ass or bottom between two chairs". It is the French version of the English expression of being "caught between ...

More recently, we saw this phrase a lot during French media coverage of the Brexit negotiations. Use it like this: On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre – You can't have your cake ...

This is a video about how to use être and avoir in French. When describing how you or other people look or are - then être - the ‎verb to be is used.‎ To be able to say what people have, the ...