vocab Flashcards

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les allocations (f)

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benefits

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le baby boom

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period marked by a greatly increased birth rate after WW2

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les banlieues(f)

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suburbs around large cities

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un banlieusard

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someone living in the banlieues

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une bavure

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police slip-up

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un(e) beur(ette)

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colloquial term to designate European-born people whose parents/grandparents are immigrants from North-Africa

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un bidonville

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a shantytown

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un bouc émissaire

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a scapegoat

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le chômage

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unemployment

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la cité

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housing-estate

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une cité-dortoir

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dormitory estate

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un commissariat

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police station

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une décennie

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a decade

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la délinquance

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delinquency

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le delit de faciès

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racial profiling(judging someone by their skin colour)

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une émeute

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riot

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les Français de souche

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native French people

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gagner du terrain

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to spread

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les Grands Ensembles

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large housing estates

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un habitat de fortune

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makeshift dwelling

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le HLM (Habitation à Loyer Modéré)

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low-cost accomodation, social housing

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insalubre

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squalid, unsanitary

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le Maghreb

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area of
North Africa comprising of Algeria, Tunisia amd Morocco

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les Maghrébins

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people from Maghreb countries in North Africa

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la main-d'œuvre
workforce
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le malaise
social unrest
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une manifestation
a riot, demonstration, protest
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outre-mer
over-seas
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les pieds-noirs
nativve. Frencch or Europeann people who emigrated to French Algeria in the 1800s and whose descendants have been living there ever since
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se plaindre de
to complain about
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la politique nataliste
government incentive to increasethe birth rate
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une aire de jeux
a play area
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une alteration
a quarrel, altercation
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anodin(e)
banal, ordinary, common
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un aperçu
a snapshot
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atterré(e)
in total dismay
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les bâtiments (m)
buildings
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une bavure policière
a police slip-up
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bruler
to burn
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la caméra cachée
a programme in which people are unknowingly filmed
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se comporter
to behave
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convival(e)
friendly
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un coup de feu
gunshot
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craindre
to fear
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les CRS (Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité)
anti-riot police
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déambuler
to stroll
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dégénérer
to worseen
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s'échapper
to escape
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écrasant(e)
crushing, overwhelming
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l'ennui (m)
boredom
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une escapade
a visit
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être témoin
to witness
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l'exaspération (f)
annoyance
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une facette
an aspect
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se faire arrêter
to be arrested
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se faire expulser
to be expelled
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frapper
to hit
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gagner sa vie
to earn one's living
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le gyrophare
flashing/revolving light on top of a police car
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un immeuble
a block of flats
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les informations (f)
the news
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un labyrinthe
a maze
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les manifestants (m)
demonstrators, protesters
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accentuer
to emphasise
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un blagueur, une blagueuse
a joker
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brulé(e)
burnt down, burnt out
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la cage d'escaliers
stairwell
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un cercle vicieux
a vicious circle
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commettre un délit
to commit an offence
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délabré (e)
dilapidated, shabby, rundown
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une échappatoire
an escap
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enfreindre la loi
to break the law
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engendrer la violence
to generate violence
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l'engrenage (m)
spiral, vicious circle
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faire des bêtises
to misbehave
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flagrant(e)
obvious
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les flics (m)
police officers (informal)
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les forces de l'ordre
the police
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fumer des joints
to smoke joints
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grossier(-ière)
rude
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incendié
burnt
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juvénile
youth, young
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juxtaposé(e)
next to
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la loi du plus fort
the law of the strongest, survival of the fittest
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le manque de respect
lack of respect
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le marché noir
the black market
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opprimé(e)
oppressed
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le pistolet
gun
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un pote
a mate
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la poursuite
chase
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se sentir chez soi
to feel at home
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témoigner
to be a witness
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témoin
witness
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les toits (m)
roofs
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trainer
to hang about (inf)
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vouvoyer
to use 'vous'
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être à l'aise
to feel comfortable
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être mal à l'aise
to feel uncomfortable
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appuyer sur la gâchette
to pull the trigger
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l'archétype (m)
archetype
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en avoir marre
to have had enough
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une bague
a ring
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un caïd
a bad boy, a leader
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compréhensif(-ive)
understanding
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déclencher
to trigger
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le droit chemin
the right track, path
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se fâcher
to get angry
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le fantasme
fantasy
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ferme
firm
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frimer
to brag, show off
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fumer du shit
to smoke cannabis
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impétueux (-euse)
impetuous,impulsive, reckless
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juif (juive)
jewish
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lucide
clear-headed, lucid, realistic
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malpoli(e)
unpolite, rude
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mûr(mure)
grown-up
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obéir
to obey
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pacifique
pacifist
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le personnage principal
main character
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le personnage secondaire
secondary character
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le personnalité
personality, traits
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un policier en civil
a plainclothes police officer
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posé(e)
calm
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raconter des blagues
to tell jokes
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réfléchi(e)
rational
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rigoler
to have a laugh
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le rigolo
joker
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sage
wise
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la sagesse
wisdom
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le shit
cannabis
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s'en sortir
to do well
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un tag
a piece of graffiti
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taguer
to graffiti
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têtu(e)
stubborn
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un(e) vantard(e)
a braggard
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se vanter
to boast, brag
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l'absence (f) de
lack of
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la bande sonore
soundtrack ; sounds
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le cadrage
framing
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le choix de
the choice of/to
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la contre plongée
view from below
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dehors/ à l'extérieur
outside, outdoors
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l'éclairage(m)
lighting
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un enregistrement
footage
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les endroits(m)
places, locations
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filmer
to shoot
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le grand angle
wide angle
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la gravité
seriousness
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un gros plan
close-up
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à l'intérieur
inside, indoors
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la langue
language
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le lieu de tournage
location of filming
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les lieux (m)
places
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les séquences longues
long, continuous sequences
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le montage
editing
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le mouvement de caméra
camera movement
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le mouvement panoramique
panning, camera movement from left to right
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le noir et blanc
black and white
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l'obscurité (f)
obscurity, darkness
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un plan, une prise de plan
a shot
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un plan d'ensemble/ général
a long shot
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un plan panoramique
a panoramic shot
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le réalisateur
the director
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recourir à
to use
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avoir recours à
to use
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la scène finale
final scene
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les séquences (f)
shots
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le son
sound
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survoler
to fly over
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les techniques cinématographiques (f)
film techniques
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les techniques visuelles
visual techniques
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le tourné
shot
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tourner un film
to shoot a film
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le travelling
camera tracking, travelling
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une vue de dessus
a bird's-eye view
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un zoom
a zoom
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zoomer
to zoom in