Michael Winterbottom had influences from the french new wave film directors, this influenced him to create films on location and helped sharpen his style. This meant he studied many social settings. He tried to combine this social realism with different experiments, outragous photography and the expressive use of widescreen. Through this Michael Winterbottom was able to establish an international reuptation. One example of his social realist influienced films is Welcome to Sarajevo (1998) this shows social realist based upon a true story. A recent film of his is The road to Guantanamo (2006) this shows a more political respone to the events after 9/11.
Michael Winterbottom also explains how British cinema has become proud enough to represent the underdog as a tradition and that atleast a few people understand other peoples state rather than ideolising the celebrity glamourous lifestyle which dominates so many media forms.
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