Chronique d'un été

  • Chronique d'un été
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, History/society
Year of production : 1960
Format : Feature
Running time : 70 (in minutes)
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In the summer of 1960, Edgar Morin, a sociologist, and Jean Rouch conducted an enquiry into the daily lives of young Parisians in an attempt to understand their concept of happiness. This experimental film follows, over a period of a several months, both the investigation itself and the development of its main characters. The initial question "How do you live? Are you happy?" very quickly raises others on a number of key issues: politics, hopelessness, boredom, solitude… The interviewees eventually meet as a group at the first showing of the film, to discuss and approve or disapprove of it; the two co-authors are confronted with the reality of this cruel but exciting experiment in "cinema-vérité".

Co-director: Edgar Morin

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