FRENCH KISS

ACTIVITY 1: THE PLOT

Kate and Charlie wanted to get married and buy a house. They were about to fly to Paris but Kate was afraid of flying. When he arrives, he fell in love with another woman, Juliette, and Kate decided to go there. On the plane she met Luc, a French man and they talked all the flight. When they landed, Kate was still sleeping when Luc, put a plant with a stolen necklace in her bag. They separate each other and Kate went to his ex-boyfriend's hotel. She couldn't get the room of him so she decided to sit down on a sofa. After a few minutes, a strange man sat with her. They started to talk and suddenly Kate saw Charlie with Juliette going down on the lift, immediately she fainted. When she woke up her bags weren't there, just Luc was there. She described that strange man to Luc and he recognized him, so they went to his house (It was important for Luc because his necklace was still there).When they were there the strange (Bob) said that he had given Kate's clothes to his girlfriend but Luc found the plant. Luc and Kate separated again but when Luc opened the plant his necklace wasn't there. He thought that it was still in Kate's bag. Then Kate took a train and Luc too, they were going to Nice(where Charlie and Juliet were). He was trying to look into her bag all the time. In a Kate’s dream, accidentally they kissed. The next morning they sat together to have breakfast and Kate reminded that she is lactose intolerant so they had to stop because she felt ill. She threw up all the food and it was still two hours for the next train. Meanwhile they were waiting for the train, they went around Luc's town. There, she discovered that he is in trouble with his brother (he stole his wallet and run away) and he wants to buy a vinyard, but first them had to sell a thing, which he had lost, the necklace. They had lunch in there too. Then, they returned to the train and Kate showed him that she had it. They arrived to Nice and when they were going to have lunch Kate saw Charlie with Juliette and her family, planning their wedding. She met them at the beach and sit to talk with them too, including Charlie. Suddenly, when Kate sat on a bank, a police man told her that the necklace was stolen, so she had to give to them. That same night, she met Charlie for dinner and Luc met Juliette, every couple went to a room and kissed, but Kate said no and Luc too. Then Kate went to Cartier to take her money and there she gave the necklace to the police. After, Kate gives the money to Luc and says that that money was the price of the necklace. 

Kate decided to return to Canada, but Luc goes to the plane to met her and say that he wants her with him, in France. Then, with the money they bought a house in front of the vinyard that Luc wanted to buy. They lived their lives together.

ACTIVITY 2: THE CHARACTERS

1.-Write a description of every character:

 -Charlie(Timothy Hutton)

 - Kate(Meg Ryan)

 - Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kine)

 -Juliette (Susan Anbeh)

Others:

-Bob(François Cluzet) 
   -Inspector Cardon (Jean Reno)

KATE:

Kate is the main character, and she is sensitive too. Sometimes she was a little surly with Luc because she didn’t know him. She had blond short hair and she was a blued-eyes woman. We could see that she was stubborn because she fights for her love.

CHARLIE:

Charlie sometimes was an idiot, because he abandoned her. He was apparently a gentleman but in fact he was a rude man. He was a brown-haired man.

LUC:

Luc was strange French man and had a moustache. Although that, he was a friendly and sensitive man because he helped Kate to get a solution about the problem with her and his boyfriend.

JULIETTE:

Juliet was the new girlfriend of Charlie. She was very pretty and young, but sometimes hysterical because of Charlie. She was a brown-haired woman.

2.- Compare Charlie-Luc and Juliette-Kate:

CHARLIE-LUC:

Charlie was Canadian and Luc was French. Charlie didn't have a moustache and Luc had it. They both abandoned Kate in some moment, but finally Luc could be with her. Both were gentlemen. Charlie was going to marry and buy a house with Kate(they didn’t do it) , and Luc did it. Charlie had short brown hair and Luc had a bit longer than Charlie.

JULIETTE-KATE:

Kate was a blond-haired and blue-eyed woman and Juliette was a brown-haired and brown-eyed woman. Kate was quite short and Juliette was longer than her. Both were a bit hysterical and get out with Charlie at different times. For us, Juliette was prettier than Kate. Both were planning to marry Charlie. Both kissed Charlie and Luc.

Vocabulary:

Rot-podrit

Fester- infectat

Hillside- vessant

Swear- jurar

Fiancé-nuvi

Charming- encantador

Citizenship- ciutadania

Spotted- tacat

Fainted- desmaiar-se

Gamble- jugat

ACTIVITY 3: imagine you are one of the characters

Hi, I'm Kate and I'm a Canadian woman. I'm afraid of flaying. Charlie was traveling alone to Paris. There he met Juliette and he falling in love. One night he phoned me and he told me that he had fallen in love with another woman Juliette. Then I traveled to Paris to meet Charlie, and in the plane I met Luc, a French boy. He helped me to find Charlie. And finally i was in love with him and very angry with Charlie. At the end of the film Luc was my boyfriend, and we bought a vineyard with a house to live together.

ACTIVITIY 4:  CAMERA...ACTION!

LUC: OK, So I try to understand.
LUC: He tells you he has met this woman.
LUC: No, this...goddess.
LUC: He beaks your heart. He Hu...
KATE: Hurts me. Humbles me.

LUC: Humiliates you.

KATE: Humiliates me.
LUC: OK, and then you come here to Paris so that he can do it again but this time right in your face.
KATE: NO, No. I come to Paris to get back the man that I love. Is htat so hard to understand, even for a person like you?
LUC: OK, andmeanwhile his lover...
KATE: D'ont ever use that word again.
LUC: This bastard woman, she's fellin something else, maybe?
KATE: Once he saw me, myself, moi, everything, would change, the spell would be broken.