{"id":17914,"date":"2023-03-30T12:38:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&#038;p=17914"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:39:40","slug":"french-enough","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/french-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"French Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou can\u2019t take for granted how things come to be.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So begins <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/french-enough\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">French Enough<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a thoughtful and engaging short film by Fransaskoise singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and RVF spokesperson Alexis Normand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Filmed at her family\u2019s cottage at Lake Wakaw, Saskatchewan, <strong>Alexis invites us to join her family as they talk about belonging, bilingualism, intentionality, and the struggles and victories of reclaiming their French-speaking Canadian identities together.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alexis\u2019s family is linguistically <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">exogamous<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; her mother is an anglophone, and her father comes from a French family. In a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nfb.ca\/blog\/2023\/03\/08\/edu-french-enough-what-francophonie-means-to-my-family\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NFB blog post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Alexis describes feeling that she and her family were \u201cincomplete francophones\u201d because they were not \u201c100 percent \u201cde souche\u201d (of pure French origin).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her father&#8217;s French was limited<i>, <\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>at least in part, by the lack of French in the educational system of the time.<\/strong> In the film, he tells us that his French only grew when he had children of his own. Alexis&#8217;s mother speaks of her challenges as an anglophone parent forced to sit on the sidelines of her children&#8217;s francophone schooling experience. Everyone in the family has their own joys, their own pains, their own experience of the francophonie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The film ends on a joyful note as Alexis describes, with a huge smile, how her nieces now &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">move in and out of two languages with such freedom their parents did not know.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: National Film Board<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17917,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[65],"class_list":["post-17914","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-canadian-francophonie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/17914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=17914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}