Michel Brault

Camera

Born: June 25, 1928 (85 years old)

Died: September 21, 2013

Place of birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Biography

Michel Brault (25 June 1928 – 21 September 2013) was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.

Filmography (26)

• Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963, ★ 7.4)
• Orders (1974, ★ 7.4)
• The Long Winter (1999, ★ 7.2)
• Un pays sans bon sens! (1970, ★ 7.4)
• Capturing Reality (2008, ★ 6.1)
• Geneviève (1964, ★ 6.5)
• Between Sweet and Salt Water (1967, ★ 5.6)
• The Snowshoers (1958, ★ 5.6)
• Wrestling (1961, ★ 6.4)
• Good Riddance (1980, ★ 7.3)
• Chronicle of a Summer (1961, ★ 7.2)
• Mon amie Max (1994, ★ 5.3)
• The End of Summer (1964, ★ 6.1)
• Mon oncle Antoine (1971, ★ 6.9)
• Take It All (1963, ★ 5.3)
• No Mercy (1986, ★ 5.8)
• The Time of the Hunt (1972, ★ 5.9)
• Kamouraska (1973, ★ 5.8)
• Dead Man Out (1989, ★ 6.3)
• La Tête de Normande St-Onge (1975, ★ 5.7)
• The Devil's Toy (1966, ★ 6.2)
• A Paper Wedding (1989, ★ 3.9)
• Montreal Stories (1991, ★ 4.7)
• A Scream from Silence (1979, ★ 5.1)
• Threshold (1981, ★ 5)
• Eliza's Horoscope (1975, ★ 3.5)