It's a low-key charmer of a film, with the ever-excellent Olivia Colman wonderful as Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mum) who drifts through the house with a very British sang-froid.

And that was evident on an afternoon when the 14 fit senior players that David Moyes could call upon gave everything they had against the defending Premier League champions - and still never looked like disturbing their sang-froid.

"Only a shared sang-froid, yoked to a determined response, will allow us to reign in the over-reaction on the markets," France s consumer affairs minister Frederic Lefebvre told Le Figaro, adding: "The Franco-German axis is strong."

At the same time, United States and British government bonds have maintained their sang-froid in the face of an inflationary challenge from both energy and food prices.

*** Leaving (15) Even in hot passion Kristin Scott Thomas remains sang-froid in this tired French tale of a bored wife's adultery and crime of passion.

As one example, the engaging and entertaining story of Caesar's stay with pirates who had kidnapped him, and his remarkable sang-froid during the experience, is related without reservations, but most serious scholars would consider the details highly suspect: they would, after all, have originated with Caesar himself.

The apparent sang-froid of European heads of state seems to be in stark contrast to the mood in the US, where just days ago, the Federal Reserve announced in was pumping US$200 billion into the fast-falling American financial markets.

The Emirates Airline Champion Stakes, the Darley Dewhurst Stakes and the totesport Cesarewitch are guaranteed to quicken the pulses of even the most sang-froid racegoers.

It's wine, women and strained sang-froid in Canadian family dramedy "Life With My Father." Sporadically infectious, yet maddeningly self-conscious and draggy in the late reels, this saga of a hedonistic father who reunites with his two bickering boys for some late-in-life bonding is stacked with a cloying joie de vivre that grates over time.

And it is that famous British sang-froid that will see us through this.

The sang-froid of the general public has been matched by a surprising (to me, at least) consensus in the GLBT world.

"The high carriage, the flexible head, the level gaze, the ultra-articulated feet, the aura of sang-froid...." This is not a description of classical ballet but of the first Merce Cunningham dance company, founded in 1953.