French Lover

This Cinderella story needs a fairy godmother or two and we are happy to oblige.

French Lover

Year: 2025

Written by: Noémie Saglio, Lisa-Nina Rives & Hugo Gélin

Adaptation by: Lisa-Nina Rives & Hugo Gélin

Dialogue by: Lisa Nina Rives & Hugo Gélin

Inspired by: A Very Important Person by Shirli Mushoyef

Directed by: Lisa-Nina Rives

Stars: Omar Sy, Sara Giraudeau

Show notes:

The heart is, indeed, a sad carny.

If you would like to skip the plot summary for this film you can spool forward a little over 15 minutes into the episode.

In this episode we mention the films:

Notting Hill* (1999) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/)

Always Be My Maybe* (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374948/)

Mr Malcolm's List* (2022) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12545566/)

And the TV series:

Lupin (2021 - ) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2531336/)

Bridgerton (2020 - ) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8740790/)

*Films marked with an asterisk have previously been featured on the podcast.

For anyone who is not familiar with the folk tale known in English as 'Cinderella', there is a nice round-up of its history and variants on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella.

If you would like to suggest films for future episodes, you can find Lisa on Instagram: @LisaStowaway.

We record these episodes over the internet. Sometimes the audio is not perfect. We apologise for that.

Music in this episode is by Martin Zaltz Austwick (martinzalzaustwick.com).

Artwork is by Lisa Findley.

Thank you for listening!