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Celebrating Chiac - Part II - DVD/Éloge du chiac - Part 2 - DVD
Description
Spoken in southeastern New Brunswick, Chiac is an inventive blend of
French—Old as well as Modern—and English, and is intimately linked to Acadien
identity. Forty years after Michel Brault’s 1968 documentary short Éloge
du chiac, director Marie Cadieux takes up the thread of that film’s
lively discussions between Rose-Anna and her French-speaking students at École
Beauséjour.
In the cafés, streets and classrooms of Moncton, Shediac and Bouctouche,
Acadians of all ages wonder about themselves, and feel outrage. Ordinary
citizens, artists and even sociolinguists in France profess, each in their own
way, their love for the Chiac language.Peppered with humorous clips from the
cartoon Acadieman, Éloge du chiac – Part 2
elicits laughter and some gnashing of teeth, but is above all a
thought-provoking document about the future of Francophone communities in
Canada and around the world. English subtitled version
2010, 77 min 37 s
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