West Beyrouth, He loves me,He loves me not; Full Monty, The Piano Teacher, Il Postino, The Vanishing,Cinema Paradiso, Miracle in Milan, Osama, The Barbarian Invasions, Battle Royale, Educating Rita, Jeux Interdits, Tsotsi, Volver, London to Brighton, Un Prophète and another hundred of them.

I cried when I was nine watching Immitation of Life with Lana Turner.A rare anti-racist film of the 50's. Buckets of tears for Forbidden Game (Jeux Interdits)and of course, La Strada and Kes. Since then, not a tear.

Reservoir Dogs (sorry)

Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Patrice Leconte, Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Polanski, Joseph Losey, Sergio Leone, Tornatore, Pasolini, Bunuel, Vittorio de Sica, Almadovar, Coline Serreau, Amenabar, Michael Cimino,Ang Lee, Stanley Kubrick and hundred more

Jody Foster, Christopher Walken,Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert,Isabelle Adjani, Kate Winslett, Kenneth Branagh. Jeremy Iron, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Morgan Freeman, Carmen Maura, Gong Li...

I respect them all and love lots of them.

Shostakovich’s waltz from the Jazz suite No 1 to glide above the palm trees, Rock Around the Clock to climb the coconut trees, Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair to remind me of Yorkshire, Jean-Jacques Goldman to remind me of France, Sound of Silence to put up with it, music theme of the Magnificent Seven to keep hope,and, to give me the illusion there is a god, Bach’s cantate Jesu Joy of Man’s Desire and the Beatles' Let It Be while I am dying on the sand.

The Perfum by Patrick Suskind, Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehman, Hundred Year of Solitude by G. Garcia Marquez, Le Sabotage Amoureux by Amelie Nothomb (Loving Sabotage)The Sound and the Fury by W. Faulkner, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Tintin, Spirou and French Grammar Made Simple.

French cakes, macarons and Trogneux's chocolates.

Without computer + bike + mobile, I would be growing cabbages in my garden.

I gave up teaching in schools to teach part time in a prison. I also write for the theatre and the theatre for children.