The films of Michel Brault
Michel Brault (1928–2013) is a Quebec filmmaker, director of photography and producer. He is one of the greatest filmmakers of the direct cinema and the first to develop an aesthetics of handheld camerawork, a practice today unavoidable. In the sixties, Michel Brault was a bridge between Québec and the French New Wave, notably due to his collaboration with Jean Rouch, showing in Europe the recent achievements of direct cinema.
He his of most of NFB's flagship works in direct cinema, including Les Raquetteurs (1958), Wrestling (1961) and Pour la suite du monde (1963). He also directed Orders (1974), a must-see film about the October Crisis, which occurred in Quebec in October 1970 and with which he won the 1975 Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Les enfants de Néant
Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the new plant that has just opened. In few days, if not few hours, his life is transformed. He enters the system of mass production and rote work. However, each night, he get back to his farm, far from the urban centers where workers must usually live.
Drifting Upstream ou Between Salt and Sweet Water
Drifting Upstream ou Between Salt and Sweet Water
Young mariner Claude leaves his little hometown to pursue his dream to become a folk singer in Montreal. There he meets Geneviève, and they become lovers. But the relationship falters as Claude begins to experience success.
The End of Summer
Filmed at a summer cottage in the Laurentians north of Montreal, this film penetrates briefly the charmed world of the adolescent. Watching and listening, you sense the bittersweet mood of childhood's end, the poignant awareness that nothing will ever be the same after this summer at the lake.
Les enfants de Néant
Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the new plant that has just opened. In few days, if not few hours, his life is transformed. He enters the system of mass production and rote work. However, each night, he get back to his farm, far from the urban centers where workers must usually live.
Drifting Upstream ou Between Salt and Sweet Water
Drifting Upstream ou Between Salt and Sweet Water
Young mariner Claude leaves his little hometown to pursue his dream to become a folk singer in Montreal. There he meets Geneviève, and they become lovers. But the relationship falters as Claude begins to experience success.
The End of Summer
Filmed at a summer cottage in the Laurentians north of Montreal, this film penetrates briefly the charmed world of the adolescent. Watching and listening, you sense the bittersweet mood of childhood's end, the poignant awareness that nothing will ever be the same after this summer at the lake.
