DVD release of this hugely influential and ground-breaking documentary film from leading French documentarist Jean Rouch. Shot in Paris during 1960, Chronicle of a Summer is a fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin. Through a series of interviews with real-life individuals the filmmakers produce a compelling film that questions the level of reality and truth in documentary filmmaking, as well as being a fascinating insight into 1960's Parisian society. With its use of handheld cameras and observational... techniques, Chronicle of a Summer was a seminal influence of the cinema-verite movement of the 1960s and on many filmmakers since. Contents: Un été + 50 (Florence Daumon, 2011, 72 minutes): documentary on the making of Chronicle of a Summer featuring new interviews with the participants including Edgar Morin and Régis Debray. Jean Rouch at the NFT (1978, 55 mins): audio recording of a lecture delivered by Jean Rouch on Dziga Vertov and Robert Flaherty's influence on his work and that of his peers. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the summer of 1960 anthropologist filmmaker Jean Rouch (Moi un noir Les Maîtres fous) and sociologist Edgar Morin set out to chronicle the everyday lives of Parisians using a mixture of intimate interviews debates and observation Artists factory workers office employees students and others open up to the camera to share their experiences fears and aspirations The result became one of the most influential films of the sixties and redefined the documentary form Rouch whose work inspired the likes of Jean-Luc Godard Jacques Rivette and Roberto Rossellini trained his ethnographic lens on the metropolis recording a series of extraordinary sequences including a French survivor s Holocaust testimony to reveal the political underlying the personal in a society struggling into the post-colonial era
Documentary about Parisians in the summer of 1960. Sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist Jean Rouch interview a selection of young Parisian adults to obtain their views on a number of societal and philosophical issues including happiness and the working class, and encourage debate amongst their peers. As an epilogue, the film-makers invite all the participants to a special screening and record their reactions as they watch the often unflattering portraits of themselves. They are then asked to voice their opinion on the level of truth they believe the film achieved.
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