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Pygmalion
1938 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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> movie Pretty Woman.
You mean Pygmalion?
At some point, the interviewer and the interviewee discuss how easy it is to tell apart the accents attached to various neighbourhoods in Paris. For those interested with the same process with the English language, I strongly recommend the film Pygmalion (1938) which I enjoyed much more than the later My Fair Lady. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(1938_film)
Over the last decades living in France, I've heard several friends that lost their accent, notably from Loire and Jura. Of course some new French accents may emerge locally or in some communities, but the geography plays a lesser role.
In addition to all those points you nailed, I want to add watch pygmalion, the British black and white movie, or my Fair Lady, the American version.
I told that to two people. Both of them had very thick accents. 6 months after watching, they lost their accents.
The movies are inspirational and full of guidance. And they are funny.