With a career spanning more than five decades, director and cinematographer Michel Brault is one of the most influential figures in Qu�穢b�穢cois cinema. Brault's early works, including Les Raquetteurs and Pour la Suite du Monde, reflected a hitherto unacknowledged and unfulfilled need on the part of Qu�穢b�穢cois society to see their own culture reflected onscreen and helped spark a cultural renaissance in Quebec. His 1974 fiction feature Les Ordres, which deals with the Quebec Liberation Front crisis and the invocation of the War Measures Act, has consistently been listed as one of the best Qu�穢b�穢cois and Canadian films to date. Brault's work as cinematographer -- on groundbreaking films such as Claude Jutra's Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) and Francis Mankiewicz's Les Bons D�穢barras (1980) -- and his contributions to the development of the cinema-verit�穢 movement, have been equally significant.
