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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 Summer”—the Criterion...
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 (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 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.
Nov 5, 2012 · Rouch and Morin create a cinematic stream of consciousness, joining images of her solitary wanderings through Paris to her anguished recollections (murmured live into a hidden mic) of her...
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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 émigré to an Afr...
As Chronicle of a Summer makes clear, and implies even the wistful nostalgic sense conjured up in its title, memory, idealization and selective editorial discretion leaves an unavoidable fingerprint that blurs our ability to fully perceive life as it really is.
