Chronicle of a Summer

Chronicle of a Summer (French original title: Chronique d'un été) is a 1961 French documentary film shot during the summer of 1960 by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, with the technical and aesthetic collaboration of Québécois director-cameraman Michel Brault.

Chronicle of a Summer
Chronique d'un été
Directed byJean Rouch and Edgar Morin
Produced byAnatole Dauman
Narrated byJean Rouch
CinematographyMichel Brault
Raoul Coutard
Roger Morillière
Jean-Jacques Tarbès
Edited byNéna Baratier
Françoise Collin
Jean Ravel
Music byPierre Barbaud
Release date
  • October 1961 (1961-10)
(France)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The film is widely regarded as structurally innovative and an example of cinéma vérité and direct cinema. The term "cinéma vérité" was suggested by the film's publicist and coined by Rouch, highlighting a connection between film and its context, a fact Brault confirmed in an interview after a 2011 screening of Chronique d'un été at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.

In a 2014 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted Chronicle of a Summer the sixth-best documentary film of all time.

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