Michel Brault

Michel Brault

Born: June 25, 1928
Died: September 21, 2013
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Movies for Michel Brault...

Capturing Reality
Title: Capturing Reality
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?
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Title: Les p'tites vues
Character: Self
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: TV
A series that features footage shot by amateur Quebec filmmakers from the 1920’s to the 60’s.
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Live Before the Letter
Title: Live Before the Letter
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Thanks to the development of techniques and the adventurous spirit of pioneering filmmakers, among whom Michel Brault occupies a central place, a new way of making cinema was born at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. This film relevantly retraces the history of a collective movement which revolutionized production and filming methods in Quebec and the world.
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La beauté du geste
Title: La beauté du geste
Character: Self
Released: February 21, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary about the act of filmmaking.
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Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
Title: Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
Character: Self
Released: May 30, 2002
Type: Movie
A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of Passion. Amidst the rise of French-Canadian identity and the political struggles of the '60s, Jutra was at the forefront of a group of artists dedicated to social change and attacking taboo.
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Québec...?
Title: Québec...?
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective work produced for the Quebec Ministry of Industry and Commerce calls on several major Quebec figures.