Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960) = Chronicle of a summer

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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...

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 the early sixties in France. 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 African student. Chronicle of a summer's penetrative approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth.

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