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Chronicle of a Summer
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The first film of cinéma vérité
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
Director: Jean Rouch
Cast: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Marilù Parolini, Jean-Pierre Sergent
Cast: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Marilù Parolini, Jean-Pierre Sergent
Description
TITLE...........: Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
STARS...........: Marceline Loridan Ivens, Marilu Parolini, Angelo
DIRECTOR........: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
GENRE...........: Documentary, French, History
TOMATOMETER.....: 71
IMDB SCORE......: 7.4
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054745
RUNTIME.........: 1h 30mn
SIZE............: 5.86 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: French FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-10-14
CHECKSUM........: 4563186BEDAE40FB25C995592DE712B
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.
Extras
• Un ete + 50 - A new documentary from 2011 including outtakes and new interviews.
• Jean Rouch - An episode of the French television program Rhone-Alpes actualites from January 24, 1962.
• Marceline Loridan - An interview with the French television program Reflets de Cannes from May 7, 1961.
• Fayer Ginsburg - An interview with anthropology professor Faye Ginsburg