Chronicle of a Summer

Chronicle of a Summer

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.Special features: New 2K digital master from the Cineteca di Bologna restoration; "Un été + 50" (2011), a seventy-five-minute documentary featuring outtakes from the film; Archival interviews with co-director Jean Rouch and Marceline Loridan; New interview with anthropology professor Faye Ginsburg. Booklet featuring an essay by scholar Sam Di Iorio.

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.

ROUCH, Jean

Criterion Collection

1961

Featuring Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, Marceline Loridan, Marilù Parolini.

DVD

Documentary (D)

C47 1961 DVD

90 mins