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Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's Chronicle of a Summer is out now on Blu-ray and DVD: http://www.criterion.com/films/28394-chronicle-of-a-summer
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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 ...
Ethnographer-filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist-film critic Edgar Morin, assisted by a motion picture crew, interview people on the streets of Paris during the summer of 1960. Marceline asks passersby on the Place de la Concorde if they are happy. She discusses her childhood spent in a concentration camp and the death of her parents.
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 Morin termed cinéma- vérité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of ...
Aug 11, 2018 · Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch – Chronique d’un été AKA Chronicle of a Summer (1961) The most famous passage from Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s self-proclaimed “experiment in film-truth” (i.e., cinema verité, a term the directors coined) involves a young woman prowling the streets of Paris with a microphone and a simple question: “Are ...
Chronicle Of A Summer (a film which embraces, happily, the coinage "cinema-verite," a terminological straitjacket so many subsequent documentarians have struggled to evade) is a series of staged conversations no less valuable for being overtly arranged by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin; the title could just as well be A Summer Experiment. Visible ...
David Reviews Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s Chronicle of a Summer [Criterion New Release] Setting aside the usual excitement surrounding a new Criterion release, the delightful and unexpected thrill of that company’s just-concluded 50% off flash sale, and the specific intrigues and pleasures found within the seminal 1960 French documentary ...
