‖ cinéma-vérité
(sinemaverite)
Also cinema-verité, ciné-verité.
[Fr.]
A film or films which avoid artificiality and have the appearance of real life; the making of such a film; documentary films collectively.
| 1963 Observer 8 Sept. 23/2 The trouble with cinéma-vérité is that it all depends how interesting your verité is. 1964 Spectator 20 Mar. 379/1 The whole essence of cinéma-vérité..is to capture the way people behave when there isn't a camera in sight. 1964 Punch 1 Apr. 492/1 A cinema vérité 2-reeler. 1964 Sunday Times 27 Sept. 13/4 ‘The Challenge’, a cine-verite documentary of the Scarborough Conference. 1967 H. Harrison Technicolor Time Machine (1968) x. 106 ‘Do you mean..the camera was running all the time?’ ‘All the time... I think you've got something really new here in cinema verité.’ 1969 C. Booker Neophiliacs vii. 178 The frenziedly cut ciné-vérité film clips, urgent music and clamant narrative of Granada's current affairs programme. |