Born in Montreal, Québec, Pierre Perrault went to law school before
turning is attention to the cinema. Concerned more by real life then
fiction, he makes movies in the 'cinéma direct' style. He filmed real
people in real life situations listening to what they have to say and
looking at how they do things. He is also a poet and a writer.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jean-Marie Berthiaume <jiembe@videotron.ca>
Also poet and playwright for which he won awards, he was also a radio scriptwriter. Some of his radio-shows were one of the basis of his work as a film maker.