January 29
Fiction and non-fiction readings
The Paris Vignettes Writers Collective presents their winter public reading, with original works in English by six writers.
Falstaff Café, Paris
January 18-26
Drinkathon
Paris Cocktail Week offers master classes, special restaurant menus with cocktail/food pairings and other festivities.
Various venues, Paris
Through January 27
Dorothea Lange’s photographs
The Politics of Seeing celebrates the renowned American photographer, known for her work documenting the interwar years in the US.
Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Through February 18
Free subtitled French films
My French Film Festival offers frees streaming of French movies.
Online
Through February 28
Flashback to the 80s
France années 80 celebrates the generation of filmmakers who defined the aesthetic of a decade.
Forum des Images, Paris
Through 9 February
Alternative art exhibition
The Rosa Brux collective presents “Action Directe, Discours Indirect,” an exhibition about trade union activists in collaboration with Videobox.
Carreau du Temple, Paris
Through February 11
Éric Rohmer
A retrospective of the work of the experimental French director.
Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Through February 21
Winter sales
Official six-week retail sales period.
All over France
February 14
Valentine’s Ball
Lookahead to Valentine’s Day: don’t miss tickets for the Paramour Le Bal, a charity ball raising funds for AIDS research in Paris’s beautiful Hôtel de Ville.
Hôtel de Ville, Paris
January 24
French film with English subtitles
Lost in Frenchlation presents Les Invisibles, directed by Louis-Julien Petit.