Chronicle of a Summer (Criterion Collection)

The first film of cinéma vérité
Chronicle of a Summer (Criterion Collection)
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 26, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1961
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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[A] pioneering work of the documentary movement that came to be known as cinéma vérité...
New York Times
Feb 22, 2013
The results are a shock. Full Review
New Yorker
Sep 15, 2014
[A] disarming portrait of Paris at a particular moment in time, but also a self-interrogating exploration of the documentary form itself... -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
Mar 13, 2013
Here perhaps a little sentimentality, but on the whole a fresh and non-cliché experiment. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Jul 30, 2019

Product Description:

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.

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  • UPC: 715515103015
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