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Brault collaborated with Jacques Giraldeau on Petites médisances (1953–1954, 39 episodes), a series made using the innovative new principles of the "Candid Eye movement.” In 1956, he joined the National Film Board, where he worked as a cameraperson on a number of Candid Eye series films, most notably The Days Before Christmas (1958, directed by Terence Macartney-Filgate).
Sep 24, 2013 · ©Photo by Lois Siegel - Michel Brault, 1986. A film buff to his dying days, and imbued with an incredible generosity towards young up-and-coming filmmakers, Michel Brault was a mentor, perhaps even an idol, to all of us. He gave an NFB Master Class last year at the request of his great friend, Monique Simard, Director General of the French ...
L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!? Michel Brault & Pierre Perrault. 1971 1 h 57 min. Long métrage documentaire tourné dans les coulisses de l’action à l’Université de Moncton (Nouveau-Brunswick), théâtre du réveil acadien de la fin des années 1960. Dans une province où 40 pour cent des gens s'expriment en français, le film témoigne de la ...
Mar 5, 2020 · Le film aborde l'emprisonnement et le mauvais traitement de citoyens innocents par le gouvernement du Canada (Pierre Elliot Trudeau) de la Loi des mesures d...
Apr 14, 2014 · In an interview in 1975, Michel Brault described himself as a documentary filmmaker who felt “trapped” when working with fiction. Nonetheless, that same year, Brault won the best-director ...
A French Canadian director and cinematographer who was amongst the pioneers of handheld camera techniques, Brault initially balanced photography with documentary directing before later employing his cinema vérité style in fiction. He twice had films nominated for the Palme d’Or in Cannes, winning Best Director at the festival for Orderers (1974). - Read Michel Brault's Guardian obituary here
2013 7 min. Back in 1947, while still making amateur movies with Claude Jutra, could Brault have known that he would mark film history? His defiant experimentalism shook things up at the NFB, and films like Les raquetteurs (1958) would launch an irreversible movement. Alongside US filmmakers such as Richard Leacock, the young Québécois was at ...
