GLOBAL COMPREHENSION:
You’re a film critic. Complete the grid about
the film dealt with in the article (in English of course! Complete sentences
are not always necessary): A2 / 6.5
Title of the film: Selma
Film genre: Drama and biographic and social and
historical movie
Director: __ Ava Marie DuVernay (born
August 24, 1972)
Actors and actresses: - David
Oyelowo (as Martin Luther Martin King) and Oprah Winfrey (were quoted in the article)
Plot (=intrigue): Selma
tells the story of Dr King’s triumphant crusade to win rights for black voters
with the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Now complete the grid about the film director
(in English of course! Complete sentences are not necessary): A2 / 7.5
Name: _Ava Marie DuVernay
Age: 42
Birthplace: _ near Compton in LA (LA = Los Angeles)
Family’s residence /
Family’s address: Alabama
Father’s job: mail
man Workplace: in
Montgomery
Mother’s job: (unknown) Workplace:
in Selma
Prizes: her a director’s award
in 2012 at Sundance (Sundance le principal festival américain de cinema indépendant
créé en 1985 par Robert Redford).
Title of
her film Prize Middle of Nowhere
Date 2012
Name of the festival;
Sundance
DETAILED COMPREHENSION:
w Answer the following questions with complete
sentences in English: B1 / 6
1. In your opinion, in Ava
DuVernay’s personal life, what motivated her to direct the film Selma?
Obviously she was concerned through her family history
living in Alabama and went through who lived this riot provoked the
confrontations between black voters and white riot* police at the start of the
march
Dr King’s
triumphant crusade to win rights for black voters with the 1965 march from
Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
2. What tragic events took
place at Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Riot provoked the
confrontations between black voters and white riot* police at the start of the
march
3. How does the Oscar
ceremony (the equivalent of the French Cesars) reflect racism and
discriminations in the American society?
The Oscar ceremony did not reward any black
actors and therefore the film industry reflected the white industry
RESULT: /
20
COMMENT:
x
Réflexion sur la langue:
Relis la
phrase: [...] she had only made two microbudget indie features, one of which,
Middle of nowhere, won her a director’s award [...]
Relève le pronom relatif: which
Relève
son antécédent: one of
Explique
le choix du pronom relatif : one which
refers to one of the two microbudgets
Relis la phrase : [...] her
family moved back to their home of Alabama, where her father is still a mail
man in Montgomery [...]
Relève le pronom relatif: Where
Relève
son antécédent: Alabama
Explique
le choix du pronom relatif : where
indique le lieu
