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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: 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
Feb 1, 2002 · Instead of remaining passive observers, the filmmakers—anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin—put themselves at the center of their film, focusing their camera on friends, students, intellectuals, foreigners and workers living in Paris in the summer of 1960.
Feb 25, 2013 · Edgar Morin’s last line in Chronicle of a Summer suggests discomfort at how his collaboration with Jean Rouch was wrapping up. The two men had spent much of 1960 working on their experimental portrait of everyday life in Paris, and though they had hoped the initiative would bring its participants together, its final phases saw those ...
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Feb 21, 2013 · February 21, 2013. It’s odd and yet exactly right to call Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s 1960 film “Chronicle of a Summer”—the Criterion DVD of which was released Tuesday—one of the...
Chronicle of a Summer, a sui generis 1961 collaboration between sociologist Edgar Morin and documentary filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch, is considered a pioneering work of cinéma-vérité. That term—coined by Morin himself—get…
Directed by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin • 1961 • France. Few films can claim as much influence on the course of cinema history as CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER. The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Mor...
