Chronicle of a Summer (1961)

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Chronicle of a Summer

Few films can claim to be as influential to the course of cinema history as CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER. The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch (Moi, un noir) and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin would term cinéma verité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France. By simply interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960—beginning with the provocative and eternal question “Are you happy?” and expanding to political issues, including the ongoing Algerian War—Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people, from artists to factory workers, from an Italian émigré to an African student. CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER’S penetrative approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth.

Movie Details

DVD Release Date February 26, 2013
Run time 85 min
Starring Angelo, Jacques, Régis Debray, Jean-Pierre, Landry, Marceline Loridan Ivens, Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
Director Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
Studio Image Entertainment
MPAA Not-Rated
IMDb Rating
7.5
Genre(s) Documentary
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