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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Opening credits
• Cinéma vérité
• "Are you happy?"
• Madi and Henri
• Workers
• Angelo's day
• Angelo and Landry
• Dinner chez Gabillon
• Mary Lou
• Jean-Pierre and Marceline
• Summer 1960 : Algeria
• Café conversation : interracial dating
• Marceline, Place de la Concorde, August 15
• Mary Lou in a better mood
• Angelo in trouble
• A trip to the beach and the bullfight
• Saint-Tropez
• Morin's daughters and Landry
• Picnic with rock climbing
• Screening room

• Rouch and Morin discuss
• End credits
• Color bars.

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Contributors:

Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998 , presenter, film producer

Lifchitz, Philippe , film producer

Rouch, Jean , director, interviewer

Morin, Edgar , director, interviewer

Loridan-Ivens, Marceline, 1928-2018 , interviewee

Parolini, Maria Ludovica, 1931-2012 , interviewee

Morillère, Roger , director of photography

Coutard, Raoul , director of photography

Tarbès, Jean-Jacques , director of photography

Brault, Michel, 1928-2013 , director of photography

Ravel, Jean, 1927-1990 , editor of moving image work

Baratier, Néna , editor of moving image work

Collin, Françoise, 1937- , editor of moving image work

Barbaud, Pierre , composer

Janus Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Cineteca comunale (Bologna, Italy) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Argos Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Languages:

French
English

Language Notes:

In French with optional English subtitles.

Included Works:

Été + 50 (Motion picture)

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 648

Alternate Titles:

Title translation: Chronicle of a Summer (Paris 1960)
Title on container: Chronicle of a summer

Subjects:

Paris (France) — Social conditions — 20th century

Happiness — France — Paris

France — Social conditions — 1945-1995

1900-1999

Happiness

Social conditions

France

France — Paris

Genres:

Documentary films

Ethnographic films

Cinéma vérité films

Nonfiction films

Feature films

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 full screen aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.

Performers:

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

Production Credits:

Cinematography, Roger Morillère, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Jacques Tarbès, Michel Brault ; editors, Jean Ravel, Néna Baratier, Françoise Colin ; music, Pierre Barbaud.

General Notes:

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.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (33 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono; Dolby

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

BJ1482 CHR 1961 DVD

ISBNs:

9781604656923
1604656921

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515103015
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: CC2233D

OCLC Numbers:

828565850