For anybody who is learning French (although I think I may be the only one on this board), the movie The Son of Joseph (Le fils de Joseph) is highly recommended. I liked the movie a lot for the “plot” and the “style.” The movie is also very helpful in “testing” the comprehension of a “normally” spoken French. I am proud that, after about 3 years of studying, I understood about 50%. Clearly the French in this movie is considerably slower than many other French series that I have been watching recently. But it is a start.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham