Chronicle of a Summer [Criterion Collection]

Director: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch Edgar Morin

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/26/2013
UPC:	0715515103015
Original Release:	1960
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	8,532

Special Features

Un Été + 50 (2011), A Seventy-Five-Minute Documentary Featuring Outtakes From the Film, Along With New Interviews With Codirector Egdar Morin And Some Of The Film's Participants; Archival Interviews with Codirector Jean Rouch And Marceline Loridan, One Of The Film's Participants; New Interview With Anthropology Professor Faye Ginsburg, The Orginizer Of Several Rouch Retrospectives

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Edgar Morin	Actor
Jean Rouch	Actor

Technical Credits

Edgar Morin	Director
Jean Rouch	Director
Anatole Dauman	Producer
Philippe Lifchitz	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Chronicle of a Summer
1. Opening Credits [2:59]
2. Cinéma-Vérité [2:51]
3. "Are You Happy?" [5:36]
4. Madi And Henri [4:24]
5. Workers [2:34]
6. Angelo's Day [7:19]
7. Angelo And Landry [5:17]
8. Dinner Chez Gabillon [5:57]
9. Mary Lou [6:06]
10. Jean-Pierre And Marceline [5:28]
11. Summer 1960: Algeria [3:38]
12. Café Conversation: Interracial Dating [5:19]
13. Marceline, Place De La Concorde, August 15 [4:25]
14. Mary Lou In A Better Mood [5:36]
15. Angelo In Trouble [2:32]
16. A Trip To The Beach And The Bullfight [1:49]
17. Saint-Tropez [3:53]
18. Morin's Daughters And Landry [1:52]
19. Picnic With Rock Climbing [4:27]
20. Screening Room [4:22]
21. Rouch And Morin Discuss [3:01]
22. End Credits [1:16]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Chronicle of a Summer
   Play The Movie
   Chapters
   Supplements
      Un Été + 50
      Jean Rouch
      Marceline Loridan
      Faye Ginsburg
   Subtitles
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