French vocab

achever

to finish

ancetres

ancestors

achever

to finish

ancetres

ancestors

aussi

therefore

au premier plan

in the foreground

a l’arriere plan

in the background

bousculer

to push and shove

Cadien

the descendants of Acadian French speakers who settled in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast states after being expelled from Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia) in the 1750s

la camera

camera

un conte de fee

fairytale

Creole

people of mixed French, Spanish, African, and Native American ancestry in Louisiana

un documentariste

documentary filmmaker

un fait divers

a news item

un film documentaire

documentary film

le glanage, un glaneur, une glaneuse

someone who collects leftover crops from a field after the harvest

glaner

to glean

un lai

a short, narrative poem, often lyrical and sung, usually dealing with themes of love, adventure, or romance

La Nouvelle Vague

The New Wave

un narrateur omniscient

a narrator who possesses complete knowledge of all events, characters, and thoughts within a story

les personnages

characters

peindre

to paint

un peintre

a painter

photographe

photographer

ramasser

to pick up

realisateur

director

un recit cadre

framing narrative

le regard

the perspective

le realisme social

social realism, work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers and some musicians that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class

revolutionner

revolutionize

un roman

novel

un romancier

novelist

le scenario

screenplay

de surcroît

in addition

surnaturel

supernatural

un tableau

painting

un Toubab

West African name for a person of European descent

tourner un film / le tournage

shooting a film

la voix-in et la voix-off

on screen voice and voice over

la zydeco

type of dance music originally played by black musicians in Louisiana with an accordion and washboard

confondre

to confuse