cinema verite
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- noun
- /ˈsɪnəmə vɛrɪˈteɪ/
- Specialized
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cinema verité
- In a large crowd gathered outside Mickey's and Mallory's trial, Wayne interviews three long-haired guys, cinema verité style, jump-cutting their response time.
- cinema verite style
So Errol Morris is very much defining himself as not the cinema verite person.
- So Errol Morris is very much defining himself as not the cinema verite person.
- And it is that combination of, yes, the guy hanging out of the helicopter with boots on the ground, GoPro like, like cinema verite.
Examples
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The documentary used cinema verite techniques to capture real-life events without staging.
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Our films were short "cinema verite" style with a newly developed lightweight Swiss camera that greatly facilitated hand-held work, but no equipment was available that permitted sound-synchronous shooting at Arctic winter temperatures.
Academic text (1992) -
We want to have that cinema-verite look, you know-
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Up to that point, I had an idea to do a film on Jesus in cinema-verite style in the Lower East Side of New York with everyone wearing suits.
Academic text (1991) -
So Errol Morris is very much defining himself as not the cinema verite person.
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We're after a cinema verité; anything can happen, truth twenty-four times a second kind of feel...
Fiction book (1994) -
Although often termed cinema verité, La Joli Mai was more in the nature of a philosophical inquiry—a time capsule that preserved a particular moment.
Blog text (8) -
In her latest film, the director embraced cinema verite to give audiences an authentic view of everyday life.
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He prefers cinema verite because it shows the genuine emotions of ordinary people.
Synonyms
A style in films or reports that shows how things really are
A style that shows people and life in a very real way, including ordinary details
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
cinema + verite
The phrase literally combines 'cinema' with the French noun 'vérité' (truth), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer a 'cinema of truth' — i.e., film that aims to depict real life. However, 'verite' is a non‑English loanword and the term also carries specific documentary/stylistic implications that are not fully predictable from the parts, so comprehension is only partial.
Etymology
Cinema verite comes from the French words cinema (film) and verite ('truth'). Film makers used small cameras and little direction to capture real people and moments, so the phrase helps you remember it means a style of film that shows 'real life'.