One might dispute how real, or how artificial this film really is (indeed, that's what the directors themselves explicitly examined in the film), but there is no denying that this is one of the greatest, and most self-reflexive experiments in cinema history. By allowing the interlocutors to dictate where they want to take the conversation, Rouch & Morin created a moving poetry in motion.
comment vis-tu? comment te debrouilles-tu avec la vie? le cinema verite est un cinema mensonge, c est mensonge par hassard singuliere son vrai que la verite est-ce que vous etre heureux? etre vous maleur? etre vous satisfait votre condition de vie?