Chronicle of a Summer
1961 Documentary Not Rated 91 Minutes
In Theaters | N/A | |||
On 4K UHD | Not Available | |||
On Blu-ray | February 26, 2013 | |||
On DVD | February 26, 2013 |
Director
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.
Not Rated.
Presented in French.
Released by Legacy Image/RLJ. See more credits.