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Chronique d'un été

Chronique d'un été

Chronicle of a Summer

Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin


  • Country: France
  • Year: 1961
  • Language: French
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  • Runtime: 85 min.

A landmark of the cinéma-vérité movement in documentary filmmaking, Chronique d’un été is a collaboration between sociologist Edgar Morin and ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch, who in 1960 invited a group of young Parisians to help them produce "a cinematic inquiry into the quality of present day living" by responding to the question, "Are you happy?"

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screening times

    • Monday October 4
    • 10:15:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

A landmark of the cinéma-vérité movement in documentary filmmaking, Chronique d’un été is a collaboration between sociologist Edgar Morin and ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch, who in 1960 invited a group of young Parisians to help them produce "a cinematic inquiry into the quality of present day living" by responding to the question, "Are you happy?" Coolly anatomizing a society caught between the fleeting pleasures of affluence and abundance and the looming spectre of the French war in Algeria, Rouch and Morin's reserved and non-judgmental approach created a model for such other master documentarians as Frederick Wiseman and Albert & David Maysles.

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