Films on the Green is an outdoor film festival organized every year by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. The festival has also had some major events in the Boston area since 2013. It takes place this year at the beginning of September at Tufts University in Medford. All events are free and open to everyone. This year, the world-wide box-office success The Intouchables (Intouchables) will be screened on September 9th, and Haute Cuisine (Les saveurs du palais) will be screened on Septembre 15th.

The Valet is a 2005 French comedy starring Gad Elmaleh and Daniel Auteuil. When billionaire Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil) is snapped by a paparazzo with Elena, his dazzling, supermodel mistress, he tries to avoid a catastrophic divorce by coming up with an outrageous lie. He asserts to his wife that a third person, François Pignon, a parking valet, who is also on the photograph, was in fact with Elena. The movie revolves around very French themes making it the perfect parisian screen farce.

La Reine de Saba is a French grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, inspired by Gerard de Nerval's "La Reine de Saba", in Le voyage en Orient. This forgotten masterpiece is resurrected by Odyssey Opera for one night only at Jordan Hall, where it will be presented in concert. The event has become the heralded start to the Boston classical music season

The story narrates the story of Balkis, the famed Queen of Sheba, who arrives in Jerusalem to meet her betrothed, King Solomon. But the beautiful and powerful Queen instead finds herself drawn to Solomon’s master architect Adoniram. What follows is a dramatic struggle between love and obligation, filled with intrigue, jealousy, and betrayal.

The masterpiece will be presented in concert, in French with English subtitles.

French rapper Orelsan will be in Boston on September 24th for a single concert at Brighton Music Hall, as part of an American Tour promoting his lastest album "La fête est finie" (2017). Orelsan is known for his ability to combine and switch between several rapping techniques, notably to depict the hardships of living in a peripherical region of France -a theme which is ubiquitous in his lastest album.

Hailed by the Boston Globe as "the extraordinary-local-but-Paris-born pianist", Pierre Hurel will be at the Regattabar for a rare solo concert and a CD release party for his latest solo album. For this special solo performance, Hurel will be sharing Jazz standards, some of his latest compositions, along with some improvisations, which reflect both his classical and Jazz influences.

The name Casanova has become synonymous with a certain Don Juan-esque rate of romantic success, but this summer the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston has decided to associate it with 18th century's esthetics and way of life. “Casanova’s Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century” combines more than 250 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, decorative arts, furniture, costumes, and musical instruments in an immersive display of the visual riches of Casanova’s world. Many of those artifacts actually come from France, that was more than ever the center of Europe in the 18th century. Among the masterpieces on view are a series of monumental paintings by French painter François Boucher, reunited here for the first time in more than a decade.

Each year, in September, almost 400 news novels are published in France for the "Rentrée Littéraire". For this occasion, the French Cultural Center's Book Club invites everyone to come with a book that has been published for the Rentrée 2018 that they are ready to present and discuss.