Cinema Verite
Season 1 Premiere:
Apr 23, 2011
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Generally Favorable
74
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
74
61% Positive
14 Reviews
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39% Mixed
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Apr 21, 2011
100
Even without the original source material, Cinema Verite offers provocative insight into how far we've become lost in the reality-TV wilderness in the past 40 years.
Apr 15, 2011
91
This wonderful docudrama about its [An American Family] making, chronicles a loss of media innocence. [22/29 Apr 2011, p.92]
Apr 21, 2011
83
Cinema Verite's strength is in dramatizing the off-camera seductions and betrayals that led to the Louds being vilified in many quarters before the entire family went on The Dick Cavett Show to both tell their side of the story and confront filmmaker Craig Gilbert.
Apr 21, 2011
75
Cinema Verite works in the same off-kilter way that HBO's "Grey Gardens" worked.
Apr 25, 2011
60
Cinema Verite is not a bad movie at all but its failing is an ironic one: it smooths out the messiness and non sequiturs of real life to fit its story into a neat feature-film arc.
Apr 21, 2011
60
Cinema Verite is a clever, beautifully made but somehow underwhelming re-enactment of the breakup of the Loud marriage, on camera and off.
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May 4, 2021
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An unattractive, untalented and painfully aging Hollywood mess that is not very "verite" To be sure there is NOTHING cinema Verite about Cinema Verite. Goddard and Truffaut would be ashamed. Cinema Verite is all about the bad 70's wardrobe trying to tell a bad story with aging leads with sycophantic supporting wanna-be's wishing they knew the era and filming style they were trying to play. We got about 30-40 minutes into this modern filmschool dribble before the plastic surgery, plastic insecurities of modern Hollywood pretending to be a period piece, and plastic direction became so revolting we turned on Reno 9/11 for some sense of dignity.
