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Cinema Verite: Defining The Moment

2000, Movie, NR, 103 mins

Cinema Verite: Defining The Moment: Review

It's funny how the French term for a documentary filmmaking movement has become so commonplace in our cultural vocabulary. Describe a film's style as "verité" and it's surprising how many people know exactly what you mean: shaky handheld camera, few edits, unscripted action. But that's only part of the story. Peter Wintonick's informative and richly illustrated history of cinema verité gives a solid overview of a revolution in filmmaking so absolute that it changed not only the language of cinema itself, but redefined the way we perceive "reality" in motion pictures. Read the complete review for Cinema Verite: Defining The Moment