Complex sentence: Some film historians have characterized the Direct Cinema movement as a North American version of the Cinéma vérité movement, an idea exemplified in France with Jean Rouch's "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961).
Split into simpler sentences: Some film historians have characterized the Direct Cinema movement as a North American version of the Cinéma vérité movement. The latter was exemplified in France with Jean Rouch's "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961).