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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 .
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 · Chronicle of a Summer is a pivotal film in French cinema, and like others of its kind— The Rules of the Game, Breathless, Beau travail —its greatness lies in its attraction to the unknown. By using new technology to frame developing events, Rouch and Morin capture two profound transformations.
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…
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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
CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER’s penetrative approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth. 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.
Nov 5, 2012 · Chronicle of a Summer. By Richard Brody. November 5, 2012. In 1960, the sociologist Edgar Morin approached Jean Rouch, who had reinvented the ethnographic documentary by filming his African...