Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.
CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (DVD)
A film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin
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.
Special features
- Brand new restoration
- Un été + 50 (Florence Daumon, 2011, 72 mins): documentary on the making of Chronicle of a Summer featuring new interviews with the participants including Edger 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 and that of his peers
France | 1961 | black and white | French language, with optional English subtitles | 87 minutes | original aspect ratio 1.37:1 | DVD9 | PAL | Dolby Digital 2.0 audio (320kbps) | Cert: 12 (contains one use of strong language) | region 2