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Chronicle of a Summer: Directed by Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch. With Angelo, Nadine Ballot, Catherine, Céline. A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.
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- Documentary, History
- Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
- 1961-10-20
90 minutes. Country. France. Language. French. Chronicle of a Summer (French original title: Chronique d'un été) is a 1961 French documentary film shot during the summer of 1960 by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, with the technical and aesthetic collaboration of Québécois director-cameraman Michel Brault .
Chronicle of a Summer -- Paris, 1960 Released May 6, 1965 1h 30m Drama Documentary List Reviews 72% Audience Score 500+ Ratings The summer season is seen as it is celebrated in the...
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- Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
- Drama, Documentary
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Simply by 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 ...
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Feb 21, 2013 · Richard Brody. The Extraordinary “Chronicle of a Summer” February 21, 2013. It’s odd and yet exactly right to call Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s 1960 film “Chronicle of a...
Feb 25, 2013 · The summer of 1960 saw the continued rise of consumer culture, but it was also the moment when significant portions of sub-Saharan Africa decolonized; it was a moment when Patrice Lumumba was fighting to maintain the sovereignty of the Congo; it was the sixth brutal year of Algeria’s war of independence from France.
Simply by 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 ...