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French Immersion (2011)

French Immersion poster
Directed by
Kevin Tierney
Genre
comedy film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
G
Rating
3.3 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of English-speaking Canadians travel to a small remote town in northern Quebec to attend an intensive French immersion program. The film follows their struggles and humorous misunderstandings as they try to learn the language and adapt to the local culture.

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What happens

French Immersion, subtitled It's Trudeau's Fault in English and C'est la faute à Trudeau in French, is a 2011 Canadian comedy film. The dialogue in this film is a mixture of both English and French. The film was the directorial debut of longtime film producer Kevin Tierney, best known for his work on the comedy film Bon Cop, Bad Cop. This story follows a group of Anglophones who come to a remote town in northern Quebec, in order to learn French. In an interview with Northernstars.ca, a website dedicated to Canadian film history, Tierney mentioned a potential sequel where instead of a French immersion course, the characters would be taking an English immersion one in Regina, Saskatchewan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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