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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 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.
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 the early sixties in France.
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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.
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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- Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
- 1961-10-20
Feb 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 DVD of which was released Tuesday—one of the greatest, and perhaps...
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Mar 13, 2002 · Not much has been written about ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch’s documentary The Human Pyramid (1960) in comparison to the interest aroused by Chronique D’Un Été ( Chronicle of a Summer, 1961), the product of his collaboration with sociologist Edgar Morin.
