Cinema 2)

MOVIES AND CULTURE
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updated 03.2019

MyTremeliclass suggestion of movies is :

Rabbit-proof fence (Australia, aborigines, injustice, 3 little aborigine girls are kidnapped), tiré d'une histoire vraie
Invictus (South Africa, Nelson Mandela, friendship), liens forts engendrés par le sport (rugby)
Amistad (black slaves (esclaves) on a boat, in a storm (tempête)
Freedom Writers (Los Angeles, school, students, tough (hard) students and place)
Witness (the Amish community, a thriller, Amish life and values)
Bend it like Beckham (London, the Indian community, an Indian girl, football, traditions, conflicts)
Scarecrow X (USA, road movie, two vagabonds meet in California and cross the USA
Super size me (about American junk food in Quebec) (malbouffe, obésité)
The Revenant (road movie= it tells a story on the roads, while travelling, in the USA, states of Dakota)
Australia (USA, Australia, white people and aborigine, Australian-American-British epic western film, world war 2, bombings)
Lincoln (historic movie, USA, the 16th president, slavery and abolition of slavery (= esclavage)
Titanic (Ferry crossing, England / United- States)
Into the wild (an American student leaves the modern society, refuses to go to university)
Dances with wolves (a white American soldier 's friendship (amitié) with the indians)
West Side Story (a musical- opposition between 2 gangs in America). comédie musicale
Chef (a chef is fired, sacked (licencié) and decides to get his own food truck)

produced by ...; directed by ...; screenplay written by ...; it stars ...; starring ...;
the release date...; the country...; director (=metteur en scène), producer (=producteur), film rating (=classement);
an award (= une récompense), an Academy award (= Oscar), award (= récompense), prize (= prix) , Bollywood, blockbuster (=grand succès, superproduction), cartoon, casting, western, cloak- and- dagger films (=d’espionnage), entertainment industry, the plot (= l'intrigue); the cast (= la distribution)...;

Genres:
a cartoon (= dessin animé), a road movie (= it tells a story on the roads, while travelling in the USA), a thriller (= film à suspense, policier), musical (= com. musicale), series, soap opera (= feuilleton à l’eau de rose), a computer-animated movie (= film d’animation), romance (= com romantique), a biopic (= biographie), documentary, trailer (= bande-annonce), game show (= jeu télévisé), a commercial (= spot publicitaire), chat show (= débat télévisé)...

Famous people in the cinema industry
W. Allen, C. Chaplin, F.F. Coppola, J. Ford, S. Kubrick, K. Loach, M. Scorsese, S. Spielberg, C. Lelouche …