Cinema Verite
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings
- Summary: The making of the 1973 documentary An American Family is explored in the docudrama, with James Gandolfini as producer Craig Gilbert, who made a great impact on television with the filming of the family headed by Pat (Diane Lane) and Bill Loud (Tim Robbins).
- Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
- Show Type: TV Movie
- Season 1 premiere date: Apr 23, 2011
- Episode Length: 90
- Air Time: 12:00 AM
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100Even 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.
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80Cinema Verite is short (not even 90 minutes), smooth and brisk.
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60Cinema 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.
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60An intriguing but often clumsy new movie about the making of the TV show.
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