Michel Brault

Michel Brault (1928-2013), born in Montreal, joined the National Film Board in the mid-fifties and became one of the pioneers of direct cinema, camera on the shoulder, close to people. A cinematographer in France for Jean Rouch, who regarded him as the best cinematographer in the world, he also did the cinematography for films by other Quebec filmmakers, including Claude Jutra, and took part in more than two hundred films, as cinematographer or director. He died of a heart attack in Toronto, at the age of eighty-five.

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• CinemaOrdersLes OrdresMichel Brault · 1974Cinema