vérité

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vé·ri·té

 (vā-rē-tā′, vâr′ĭ-tā′)
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vérité

(ˈveɪriːˌteɪ; French verite)
adj
1. involving a high degree of realism or naturalism See also cinéma vérité: a vérité look at David Bowie.
[French, literally: truth]
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cin′é•ma vé•ri•té′

(ˌvɛr ɪˈteɪ; Fr. veɪ riˈteɪ)
n.
a technique of documentary filmmaking in which the camera records actual persons and events without directorial intervention.
[1960–65; < French cinéma-vérité literally, cinema-truth, translation of Russian kinoprávda]
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There may even be a greater accumulation of spite in it than in l'homme de la nature et de la verite. The base and nasty desire to vent that spite on its assailant rankles perhaps even more nastily in it than in l'homme de la nature et de la verite.
Les hommes--egoistes-- menteurs, pas dire la verite .
"Il faut etre vigilant, en verite! je crois que nous avons la, un caporal qui ne dort jamais!"
"Du lait, de l'herbe fraiche"--the idyll, the ideal of the Parisian bourgeois--his whole outlook upon "la nature et la verite"!
Verite's approach stresses the need for collaboration among governments, local non-governmental organizations, UNICEF, the International Labor Organization, companies, etc.
Second, my suspicions that we five in a police-state verite were more than confirmed with each grainy videotape of the top of someone's bead at the newsstand, or of a stalled, blurred figure running out of view, caught on a parking-lot surveillance camera.
Realism is best exemplified by documentaries--particularly "direct cinema" or cinema verite, in which the filmmaker tries to record events with as little interference as possible.
Changes in film technology from cumbersome equipment to portable cameras and tape recorders resulted in widespread interest in cin ema - verite techniques in the U.S.
[beaucoup moins que] D'un chateau l'autre[beaucoup plus grand que] est le roman ou Louis-Ferdinand Celine s'evertue tant bien que mal a dire la verite: la sienne et celle des autres.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- The 12th edition of Iran International Documentary Film Festival, also known as the Cinema Verite, will start in Tehran next Sunday and 56 films from all over the world will be screened in the international event.
Pierre le fils de Maurice Audin, a appele Vendredi 14 Septembre, les temoins de la guerre de liberation nationale a [beaucoup moins que] dire la verite [beaucoup plus grand que] et a [beaucoup moins que] transmettre les documents [beaucoup plus grand que] sur l'assassinat de son pere par l'armee francaise, survenu il y a 61 ans.

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