(French; : " truth cinema ")
French film movement of the 1960s that strove for candid realism by showing people in everyday situations with authentic dialogue.
Influenced by documentary filmmaking and Italian Neorealism , the method produced such outstanding examples as Jean Rouch's Chronicle of a Summer (1961) and Chris Marker's Joli Mai (1962). A similar movement in the U.S., where it was called "direct cinema," captured the reality of a person or an event by using a handheld camera to record action without narration, as in Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies (1967) and the Maysles brothers' Salesman (1969).