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Few films can claim to be as influential to the course of cinema history as Chronicle of a Summer. The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch (Moi, un noir) and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin would term cinéma verité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France. By simply 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 African student. Chronicle of a Summer’s penetrative approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
Product Details
Actors: Marceline Loridan, Mary Lou Parolini
Directors: Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
Format: Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: February 26, 2013
Run Time: 91 minutes
Special Features
Un Été + 50 (2011), A Seventy-Five-Minute Documentary Featuring Outtakes From The Film, Along With New Interviews With Codirector Edgar Morin And Some Of The Film's Participants Archival Interviews With Codirector Jean Rouch And Marceline Loridan, One Of The Film's Participants New Interview With Anthropology Professor Faye Ginsburg, The Orginizer Of Several Rouch Retrospectives
Cast & Crew
Edgar Morin
Jean Rouch
Technical Credits
Edgar Morin Director
Jean Rouch Director
Raoul Coutard Cinematographer
Jean-Jacques Tarbes Cinematographer
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