Chronicle of a Summer
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch
Edgar Morin
Marceline
Marilou
Jean-pierre
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ethnographer-filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist-film critic Edgar Morin, assisted by a motion picture crew, interview people on the streets of Paris during the summer of 1960. Marceline asks passersby on the Place de la Concorde if they are happy. She discusses her childhood spent in a concentration camp and the death of her parents. Two African friends wonder why she has a tattoo on her arm. Rouch and Morin talk with an artist couple who are happy with the bohemian life and later with a bourgeois couple who work in an office. Angelo, a worker at the Renault factory, meets Negro student Landry, and they discuss their philosophies. Another student, Jean-Pierre, Marceline's former boyfriend, is also interviewed at length. Marilou, an Italian working as a secretary at Cahiers du Cinéma is interviewed twice. On the first occasion, she finds little meaning in life; later she falls in love, and during the second interview, she discusses her new perspective. At a beach resort in Saint-Tropez, Sophie talks about her career as a cover girl. Rouch and Morin then assemble everyone in a screening room where they view the edited film and comment on cinema verité. Finally, walking through the corridors of the Musée de l'Homme, Rouch and Morin analyze their subjects' reactions.
Cast
Jean Rouch
Edgar Morin
Marceline
Marilou
Jean-pierre
Jean
Jacques
Régis
Céline
Jean-marc
Nadine
Landry
Raymond
Simone
Henri
Madi
Catherine
Sophie
Crew
Néna Baratier
Barthélémy
Claude Beausoleil
Louis Boucher
Michel Brault
Françoise Colin
Comité Du Film Ethnographique
André Coutant
Raoul Coutard
Anatole Dauman
Michel Fano
André Heinrich
Philippe Lifschitz
Roger Morillère
Edgar Morin
Musée Del'homme (paris)
Jean Ravel
Guy Rophe
Jean Rouch
Jean-jacques Tarbès
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Paris opening: October 1961 as Chronique d'un été; running time: 85 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the International Critics Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
Released in United States Spring May 6, 1965
Released in United States 1990
Released in United States June 2, 1990
Released in United States May 1998
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (Tribute to Anatole Dauman) April 30 - May 13, 1990.
Shown at Pacific Film Archive (A Producer's Vision: Anatole Dauman) in Berkeley, CA June 2, 1990.
Shown at docfest: New York International Documentary Festival May 27-31, 1998.
Released in United States Spring May 6, 1965
Released in United States 1990 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (Tribute to Anatole Dauman) April 30 - May 13, 1990.)
Released in United States June 2, 1990 (Shown at Pacific Film Archive (A Producer's Vision: Anatole Dauman) in Berkeley, CA June 2, 1990.)
Released in United States May 1998 (Shown at docfest: New York International Documentary Festival May 27-31, 1998.)
