Inside Louisiana’s Sinking Communities | Belle River | The New Yorker Documentary
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- As a result of climate change, one Louisiana town faces extinction. A short documentary, directed by Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, and Yannick Nolin, tells the story.
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I have to compliment the exquisite cinematography. Bravo.
And sound design too!
It’s so beautiful to here my Louisiana French and see people with stories so close to my heart highlighted by such a major platform. 🙏🏽
Please make more of this style of documentaries. We do live in a great nation if we know where to look. The hearts of these people are what makes us strong.
dawg where are their hearts going to be when they go underwater. They need us to do something.
They need moorings just as much as roadways.
Unrelated to the subject matter, but I was not expecting to hear French spoken, and even more surprised to be able to understand most of the Acadian French being spoken (I'm French, it sounds a lot like some dialects spoken in the countryside nearby the town where I live). Much strength and love to the people featured in this video, "fluctuat nec mergitur" ("it floats and doesn't sink", the actual official motto of Paris).
A lot of ppl speak French in Louisiana 😊❤
This is how Tagalog sounds to a Spanish speaker. I speak Spanish
France once had control of Louisiana :)
@@FuneraryGirlExactly
J'ai eu la même réaction, super facile à comprendre pour moi qui suis québécoise
Grew up in Luziana. Prettiest state of the Union. Where the sweet magnolias blossom at ever' body's door. In my near 70 years I saw swamps and streams drained and decimated, wildlife flee for their lives, 1,000's of acres of forest cut, slashed and burned in order to build more houses. We screwed up good. The Garden of Eden is no more.
In every state....Not just this one.
I'm up north and where they're were once farmlands and fiesta we have more highways and students went McMansions. We barely get snow anymore. We f* up big time. I for one won't be sorry to see us go. Nature comes back wherever humans leave!
Nay, friend, lose not hope. For Louisiana (pls check your spelling), is a place where the warmth touches all, the gumbo feedeth the insides, and the heart flourishes.
Despite its brevity, this is one of the best documentaries I have ever watched.
For those wondering.. they are speaking a mixture of Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) & Cajun French. Just like some people speak a mixture of Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) & Louisiana French. That’s why you hear of the term “Louisiana French Creole” sometimes.
I grew up in Plaquemines Parish back in the 50’sand 60’s. It’s gone. No more parish
Apocalyptic is the only word that comes to mind
I was completely stunned by the fact they all spoke French.
Cajun french to be exact, it reminded me of my grandma,grandpa, aunt's and uncles talking, I miss those days, that language is dying off, but I seen they teaching students at different schools in new Orleans...
@@coolbreeze3338 That's really amazing. I really hope they are still teaching the language. Thank you for sharing.
@@soniaguerrero5582 your very welcome, I seen it on TH-cam awhile back...
They are teaching the real French in the schools not Cajun french.
It used to be the main language of Louisiana. Just a generation ago, it was very common to hear in the countryside. In 25/30 years, those numbers of fluent speakers have basically been cut in half. Pretty sad.
Fun tidbit: The feller whose political signs are on the road at 3:32, Seth Breaux, was a former Chamber of Commerce chief who has now been convicted of secretly filming minors in truck stop bathroom!
Thank you.
And apparently it wasn’t the first time.
yikes
The dirty south, not proud and not ashamed, can’t stay gone too long, Louisiana calls my name.
what that to do with any of this at all..............go sit down oh yeah f...........u..........k........... t......r......u.....m........p.......
Not long enough. I could watch a series. Holy moly.
Wow. c’est incroyable! All my travels to Louisiana. Never ran into anyone actually speak like that. Bravo. C'est vachement bien! Really love this documentary
These conditions are horrendous to a persons health and well being. Sad to see such poverty in such a wealthy nation. Unfortunately wealth is only handed t o a select few.
At the rate they’re going it won’t last much longer. And the conditions are only horrendous because greed got in the way. If they build around the land and not against it, things could have been different
We’re not a wealthy nation. We are bankrupt and broke.
@@thelastvalkyrie1998 most accurate comment I have seen here. The reason these people are dealing with high water in the documentary is floodwater, not rising sea levels. DONT LIVE WHERE IT FLOODS is the simple answer.
Money cannot buy the love this community has for one another. We are very rich here.
@@codyscrivener3065it happened because a spillway was opened
Most interesting video I've seen all week
I am French-Canadian and I can understand their dialect, which is simultaneously very moving and interesting to me. Canada does have a wonderful community of Acadians (Acadiens in French, or Cajuns) in the province of New Brunkwick, and their dialect is called Chiak; I understand Louisiana Cajuns better, for some reason. I certainly wish them the best, and much courage.
I was born an raised in Pierre Part , Belle River. This was 2 years ago!!
Beautiful Piece. Drone cinematography really made this one. Six Flags was a fun addition, kind of saying even corporate America isnt coming back due to water intrusion.
I don't even have words
What a beautifully shot piece. Sometimes you don’t need a lot of words to communicate despair
or resilience.
The documentary was excellent as current ethnography, and hinted implicity at the political rot behind the poverty and inattention to infrastructure that exacerbates the climate situation, but there was insufficient science and no sense of urgency to act. In the end the message was one of futility and ultimately despair.
This was beautiful, in a way... thanks for sharing! :)
Happiness is a state of mind . They are happy living in these conditions, as long as they have each other . Notice no young people in video and they speaking French language. Lesson here for us all.
Why is Six Flags New Orleans in a documentary about Belle River, LA? Those 2 places are 100 miles apart. Can someone tell me the song and artist playing at the beginning? It sounds like the Breaux Brothers
it's so out of place
this doc is just more “news” with an agenda sadly
The song is called “Mon Coeur T’apelle” by Cleoma Breaux
@@LATEIR thank you. Cleoma was the sister to the Breaux Brothers
On the side the color grading is fantastic
Turns out building below sea level is not a good idea
They started out above sea level, but the ground sank beneath them.
The ground sank lol sure that’s what happened. Lol
Terrific piece....
Thank you for showing us, in a beautiful way that there are beautiful people out there!
What a big heart this Lady has. I love her
Cinematography was SO wonderful.
I would be afraid of gators coming up to the house.
They keep to themselves in Louisiana despite being very abundant in the state (most alligators in the whole country)
The reason why you see so many alligator interactions in Florida is because the entire state of Florida is getting urbanized so the wildlife is being forced to coexist or killed
And water moccasins
Many places of the US are overpopulated, and therefore, wildlife adapts to the intrusion. We need less in this country...
Terrible and beautiful. Stunning production.
Thanks for showing this up! It reminds me the film Gumo
Speechless
Excellent!!!
Fabulous Doc
c'est un témoignage extrêmement touchant, bravo et merci
In New Orleans as we "speak". Is there any way that "The New Yorker" can supply information regarding when the films you are posting were made, and aired? Thank you. Love your content.
Reminds me of Beasts of the Southern Wild. I hope they can keep their homes
As a native french speaker, this french sounds soooooo odd.. some words and pharses I dont understand but, Im glad they are still holding onto their language and culture.
Please do not use phrases such as “odd” when speaking on my culture. They are speaking Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) & Cajun French, not French. Of course you dont understand. French is not the dominant culture. Louisiana Creoles & our specific Creole language is.
@@LATEIRWhere can I learn more? Does everyone who knows Cajun French also know Kouri-Vinci? I only know French.
@@LATEIRje me disais la même chose. Calling other people langue odd is odd
@@ReineDeLaSeine14unfortunately Cajun French is a dying language, when my grandma was in school in the late 40’s early 50’s they stopped allowing French to be spoken and they got in a lot of trouble if they did. By doing that most of us younger people don’t know how to speak Cajun French. With that being said some universities down here are teaching Cajun French classes now so hopefully we can teach enough to keep Cajun French going and not completely dying out
@@ReineDeLaSeine14as well as Kouri-Vinci too
Digging, the new stories on here. This is the reality of living down da bayou.
those shrimp boots... are wore all the time... love my southern neighbors.... my dad still walks barefoot as much as possible... Au Revoir
It sad they don't let Mississippi do what it has done for thousands of years. You can't fight a large river like that. The Government needs to help the people move and it will help the river. I just hope they get all the garbage out of there. Give life to the people and the river.
Courage my creole brothers and sisters....
Hugs cuz
That language has been spoken there for years. The old ways of life as we knew it are all but gone now.
Louisiana congressman sat in congress denying climate change.
What's the name of that french song that played at the beginnijg?
Yeah, every year during rainy season. It’s why most settlers lived on house boats!
C est tellemnt du beau pays. Et une belle langue
That's my in-laws dancing in this video.
6:20 hmmm...
All I can think of is the snakes and gators and whatever else in that water 😳 can we get an update?
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As the man in Kingston said, New Orleans is sinking and I don't wanna swim. Do they speak any Creole like in the Cape?
We speak our own Creole language just like any other Creole nation. We speak Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole)
It's time for the government to give up the massive lands they illegally own by buying out homeowners who live in coastal areas and offering them a plot of land the federal govt is hoarding equal in size to the plot of land going under as sea levels rise. Get as much of the population safely inland early and avoid a refugee crisis. At the warmest cycles in the planets fluctuations, sea levels are 600 feet higher than today. We need to accept that the sea level is rising and will flood out most of our coastal cities in the future and the time to get ppl moved inland is now. Time for the government to start giving some of the Land they've claimed as federal lands back to people!
Too many morons in government...nothing will ever get fixed & China is gonna nuke us! I have a nice hobby! Do something useful with yourself!! I sew blankets for homeless doggies & their human. Trying to be usefull before Zombie Apocolipts (sp?)
There’s a certain poetic irony that those who refuse to accept climate change and consistently vote for those who fight against remediation are those who suffer the effects.
I wouldn’t call it poetic at all, because everyone is suffering those same consequences, not just the people who vote for greedy fools.
I accept climate change I don’t accept windmills and solar farms to fix it. That money invested in the conservation reserve program would have a much more positive effect. Or to build smart wetlands in at country to clean out the fertilizer and prevent erosion
can wait to see florida swallowed by the ocean.
@@johnpaschal3217 Most Republicans deny it.
You don’t understand the delta down there its not climate change its because they made New Orleans and devirted and slowed the rivers down thats why land is getting washed away look it up df
waters com'n everywhere bro... sincerely the Mackenzie delta
1:53.. is that a raccoon nailed to the wall?
You darn tootin
Well i speak English. And i definitely cant enjoy readings captions . Looks like a great vid though.
New York city is sinking too! Ironic that the New Yorker is going to Nawlins to do a story about a sinking place😂😂😂
What part of New York has water in the streets like this ?
@@habituallinestepper3927It will give it time!
@@habituallinestepper3927not like this of course. But hurricane Sandy really showed how bad the potential problems could be. It flooded a lot then.
If you take riparian habitats, nature will take it back. Living through the collapse of human civilization will be hard but I genuinely hope we'll at least be able to take the wealthy down with us.
Those who can't afford high ground live in lower lying areas while animals can only live in the flood plane because everywhere is developed. I see it where I live an area that floods.
i feel like this is fixable... why couldn't they just build an artificial river for all the water to collect into
Climate chaos caused by Solar Blanketing ( Geo Engineering ) more than any other factors. Sooner or later this huge program must be talked about when addressing climate change.
What about gators and snakes. Has anyone been hurt?
Dystopia.
Some of the cast of swamp people live in that town
🧡🙏🏻
Florida in 5 years 😢
So, the bad guys are, us?
It's a swamp. What'd you expect? Wake up. Move.
They live there because of poverty and there will be more people in swamps in the future. Expect to see more people living in water as the poor get poorer and sea levels rise.
New York City this is your future. 4 millimeters a year is your pace and expected to excellerate😂😂😂
and when the ice caps melt what you think u gonna happen to new york u think you gonna be dry?
Dont the alligators get out and swim around if there is a flood?
Yes 😂
Yeah, the climate is changing, as is every planet in the solar system. All the windmills and solar panels in the world can not even begin to affect what is coming.
It's ignorant smoothbrains like you who got us here, so congratulations, I guess.
We still have to try and adapt.
What the language they speak???
Cajun French
In some scenes they are speaking Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole), an other scenes they’re speaking Cajun French.
Mother Nature is not to be taken lightly she will get the last laugh. Unfortunately many will suffer because of few.
The guy at 5:40 minute in.....loved his house
Drama, we don’t need. @0:55, it’s always looked like that. We dig ditches, and use the soil to build the road bed. Belle River is a swamp. The highest ground is near the water’s edge, or biggest dirt pile. Live in the swamp, at your own risk.
Here’s a notion…Move
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ been living in south Louisiana for 35 years and no one talks fluent Cajun French 24-7!
then you lying
I read a study that zero indigenous local first people DNA was present in the present Shinnecock "indians".
How can it be a first people's reservation without indigenous people?
I wonder what would happen if I went back to Europe and said I am indigenous and decide to have a reservation on the Italian riviera??
So what
Them "dolla indians."
Well, this little documentary is really pretty but otherwise useless. I worked five years as a coastal geologist for the State of Louisiana in the early ‘80s. A unique cultural region that won’t be able to exist in the future. Everyone knows this and it has been known long before my time there. Instead of this melodramatic imagery, I think you should have worked with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) to provide your readers and viewers with fact-based information. This was just sentimental bawling
The cinematography was beautiful, but my attention span has dwindled and felt this could have been a much shorter piece.
Are they French descendants
Yes
All those people that live there have the same sinking feeling.
There’s not much you can do?? How about DONT live below the water level. We made the dumb decision to live in the bottom of a bowl, and complain when it floods.
Why are your documentaries generally set in overtly sombre, and broken portrayal of reality?
I was wondering the same thing. I’ve spent some time down in South Louisiana and it is one of the happiest places I’ve very been. Sad they chose not to capture that side of it
It's not overly somber. These people are facing hardship but they are doing it bravely. People struggle and that's just reality not "overly" anything. If you find rich people more relatable there are documentaries about them too.
This unfortunate result of generational apathy. Wouldn't advise communing near a volcano either.
We need to sell back the Louisiana Purchase to France😂😂😂
step 1: don't live in a swamp
Are you going to tell them stop being poor too? How wise you are!
Easier said than done.
Hey Fun fact. The guy had a vote blue sticker on the back of his truck. Louisiana has a Democrat governor so obviously you get what you vote for.😂😂😂😂
A 10 minute documentary lol.
Boy, is the New Yorker trying to pull a fast one, or what?
Well that was a waste
libs unite here
We need to pump water out of Louisiana, and pipeline it back to the Colorado River valley where it's needed to counteract California stealing all of THAT water for orchards so vegans can milk Almonds.
We need the water here, keep the poor water management out west. The land here is compacting under its own weight, and thus sinking. The mississippi river and others naturally flooded the land and desposited sediment to keep the land replenished. Now, the river is contained in levees for shipping channels, and all the sediment is dumped far out in the edge of the gulf.
The mississippi river would naturally flow west near baton rogue, if the Corp of Engineers didnt build the old river diversion structure to maintain the shipping channels to NOLA and BR. That west ward flow would go into the Atchafalya basin, as it naturally has many many times, and be building new land in that entire area right now.
Cost? Evaporation? It's not all that easy.
Yes, cry out climate change when you live in a massive flood zone that is below sea level how ironic.
It’s almost like the sea level is changing, clown.
How bout you speak English
That was a bad documentary. If it wasn't for the cinematography it might have been the worst.
what? their native language is creole? i didn’t know that that’s crazy i understood everything they said
Ummm. It is below sea level. The sea level is rising. Ummm, 2+2=4. Fkn move.
People like that are dirt poor. How do you think they are going to move with nowhere to go. Have you looked at the price of housing or rentals lately?
@@stephaniewalsh67 I hear you. I suppose a pair of big boots and a fishing pole is better than moving. Become boat people?
Compared to other parts of south Louisiana Pierre Part is actually above sea level. This documentary highlights the fact that all of these people live within the Atchafalaya flood plain which is unfortunately the first to flood when the Morganza spillway is opened as a result of the Mississippi River being above flood stage to the point that cities like Baton Rouge and New Orleans would be in jeopardy because of the levels of water potentially causing levee collapses. The a big cause of this flooding, along with the loss of land is the fact that the Mississippi river has been completely leveed off which increases flow rates, decreases sediment dispersion and by the time it gets to the gulf doesn't have a chance to build land the way it used to.