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- TV-14
- HBO
- TV-14
- HBO
Summary Based on the groundbreaking show from PBS, An American Family, producer Gavin Polone takes viewers behind-the-scenes with the family from the original show and looks into the making of the series.
- TV-14
- HBO
- TV-14
- HBO
Cinema Verite
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 23, 2011
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Summary Based on the groundbreaking show from PBS, An American Family, producer Gavin Polone takes viewers behind-the-scenes with the family from the original show and looks into the making of the series.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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61% Positive
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39% Mixed
9 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
74
61% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
39% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
This wonderful docudrama about its [An American Family] making, chronicles a loss of media innocence. [22/29 Apr 2011, p.92]
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.
Cinema Verite works in the same off-kilter way that HBO's "Grey Gardens" worked.
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.
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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Production Company:
- HBO Films
- Pariah
Initial Release Date: Apr 23, 2011
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 9 Nominations