Brault returned to Quebec and the NFB , but quit the Board in 1965 when Pierre Juneau , the director of French production , refused to okay his first fiction feature , '' Entre la mer et l'eau douce '' . Since he pursued a very successful freelance career in feature films , documentaries , shorts and television . His cinematography ranged from the gritty cinéma-vérité style of '' À tout prendre '' to the lyricism of '' Kamouraska '' , and his directorial work from the terse documentary stylings of '' La lutte '' to smoothly proficient television dramas such as '' Les noces de papier '' , which was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival . He won Canadian Film Awards for lensing '' Mon oncle Antoine '' and '' Le Temps d’une chasse '' , and Genie Awards for his work on '' Good Riddance ( Les Bons débarras ) '' and '' Threshold '' . '' Les Ordres '' ( 1974 ) , which he directed , shot and wrote , won for him the CFA for direction and he shared the best director award at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival . The film seamlessly fuses documentary and fiction styles while dramatizing the trauma of innocent people caught up in the October Crisis of 1970 . It is still regarded as a masterpiece of Canadian cinema
1975 Cannes Film Festival
1975 Cannes Film Festival
Michel Brault