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BIENVENUE and welcome to the 2007 French Film Festival UK, which this year berths for the first time at Leith's Ocean Terminal, where the Vue Cinema will host a number of screenings of new French films.
However, while the strong historical links between France and Edinburgh's port will be enhanced, the main focus of the three-week event, which begins next Thursday with a screening of Christian Vincent's charming comedy Four Stars (Quatre Etoiles), continues to fall on the Filmhouse, Lothian Road.
Four Stars is the first of 23 films to be shown at this year's festival, a highlight of which will be screenings of Michel Hazanavicius' spy-spoof, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies (OSS 117: Le Caire Nid d'Espions), featuring Special Agent OSS 117, France's answer to James Bond.
In fact, OSS 117 predates his English counterpart by four years, author Jean Bruce's character first appearing in print in 1949 and eventually figuring in 265 novels and seven movies.