Cinema Verite (2011) on Netflix
In 1971, Craig Gilbert brings Pat Loud a proposal for a documentary series about her family's daily life in Santa Barbara, California. Pat agrees, and the crew moves into the house.
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Plot summary
Pat Loud lives in Santa Barbara, California with her husband Bill and their five children. Craig Gilbert comes to her with a proposal: a documentary series that would record the family's daily life. Pat weighs it and accepts. Her son Lance is moving to New York City, and Bill is often away on business, so Pat cares for the children largely on her own. A crew, among them Alan and Susan Raymond, moves into the house and begins to film. Gilbert pushes them to capture personal moments, and the crew objects to his methods. The production puts pressure on the household, and Pat and Bill's marriage grows strained.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cinema Verite (2011)
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- Cinema Verite is a fictionalized account of the making of An American Family, the 1973 PBS documentary series said to be one of the earliest examples of the reality television genre.
- The film is divided into chapters titled things like The Chelsea and The Battle for the Camera Begins; when each title appears, clips from the original 1973 documentary An American Family play alongside it in split screen.
