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Chronicle of a summer [DVD] / directors, Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2233DDVD | Image EntertainmentLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 648.Publication details: [United States] : Image Entertainment, [2013]Description: 1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Original French title: Chronique d\'un été
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • DVD 533A
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Jacques Tarbès, Roger Morillière, Michel Brault ; editor, Néna Baratier ; music, Pierre Barbaud.
Cast: Marceline Loridan, Mary Lou Parolini.Summary: The result of collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this work of what Morin would term cinema verite is a sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France. By interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people and give us a document of a time and place with extraordinary depth.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Originally Chronique d'Un Ete, this black & white, 16-millimeter film is an exercise in cinema verite, conceived by an anthropologist/moviemaker (Jean Rouch) and a sociologist/movie critic (Edgar Morin). The all-amateur cast includes a black university student, a factory worker and a young holocaust survivor. Each is interviewed on a variety of current-events topics, and each is permitted to ramble on until the camera runs out of film. As a coda, the interviewees are seen talking among themselves, asking each other if they had been "acting" while on camera. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Title from web page.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

Release date: Feb. 26, 2013.

Special features: New high-definition digital transfer of the Cineteca di Bologna restoration; Un ete + 50 (2011), a seventy-three-minute documentary featuring outtakes; Archival interviews with codirector Jean Rouch and marceline Loridan; New interview with anthropology professor Faye Ginsburg; New and improved English subtitle translation; Plus, a booklet featuring an essay by scholar Sam Di Iorio.

Cinematography, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Jacques Tarbès, Roger Morillière, Michel Brault ; editor, Néna Baratier ; music, Pierre Barbaud.

Marceline Loridan, Mary Lou Parolini.

The result of collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this work of what Morin would term cinema verite is a sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France. By interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people and give us a document of a time and place with extraordinary depth.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD; Widescreen, 16:9.

French dialogue; English subtitles.

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