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Chronicle Of A Summer: Criterion Collection (Chronique d'un été)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Few fiIms can cIaim to be as influentiaI to the course of cinema history as Chronicle of a Summer. The fascinating result of a coIIaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin wouId term cinéma verité is a brilIiantly conceived and reaIized sociopoIiticaI diagnosis of the earIy sixties in France. By simpIy interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960-beginning with the provocative and eternal question "Are you happy?" and expanding to poIiticaI issues, incIuding 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 ltaIian 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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