Sentences with phrase «verite footage»

«LoveTrue,» which also premiered on Friday, is a documentary that feels like a troubled but lovely fever dream, a look at three different subjects that mixes verite footage with re-enactments, and then deconstructs those sequences by having the actors talk to the real subjects.

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But though Kassovitz sticks to black - and - white in the body of the film - black - and - white still says verite to us, even though news footage is now invariably in colour - he doesn't restrict the camera's role to passively registering events.

This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Sophie Fiennes» documentary shows the legendary singer, model and actress still at it as she nears age 70, and it has lots of good concert footage, but the film is frustratingly short of any context or depth — just a no - explanations cinema verite approach.