Chronicle of a summer

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Morin, Edgar, filmmaker.

Rouch, Jean, filmmaker.

Kanopy (Firm)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Documentary films.

France--20th century.

France.

Genre:

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 minutes) digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2014

System Details:

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

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 cinèma- vèritè 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 èmigrè to an African student. Chronicle of a summer's penetrative approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth

Notes:

Vendor supplied data

Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1961

OCLC:

1155323283

Publisher Number:

1113373 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license