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Feb 25, 2013 · That discussion is set at the heart of the film, in a suite of scenes that associate decolonization, racism, and group identity and culminate in one of Chronicle ’s most iconic episodes, Marceline’s monologue about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and her return to France after the war.
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...
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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.
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 émigré to an Afr...
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Feb 1, 2002 · Chronicle of a Summer opened up for me a whole new way of using the camera—an approach to documentary that moved beyond surfaces to a more probing, complex, and, finally, authentic examination of the world.
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...
Feb 26, 2013 · Chronicle of a Summer. Blu-ray edition reviewed by Chris Galloway. February 26 2013. BUY AT: See more details, packaging, or compare. Synopsis. Few films can claim as much influence on the course of cinema history as Chronicle of a Summer.
