"Cinema Verite" (2011): The Birth of "Reality TV"
"Cinema Verite" is an engrossing inside-out HBO dramatization of the first foray into "Reality Television". The 1973 PBS documentary, "An American Family", intruded into the real lives of the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California.
Diane Lane is superb as the progressively liberated Pat, while Tim Robbins shines as the old fashioned patriarch, Bill, who systematically loses his controlling grip on his wife and kids.
However, unlike the measure of the manipulated pawns on today's tube, we learn that this kinfolk find perpetual anonymity ain't all that bad, in all reality.
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