cinema verite

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   a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director

   Broadermovie

Questions about cinema verite

What does cinema verite mean?

cinema verite means "a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director".

Is cinema verite a common word?

cinema verite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.