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Article: OUT OF AFRICA.
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- Artforum International
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- October 1, 2000
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DANIEL PINCHBECK ON JEAN ROUCH
"WE WANTED TO MAKE A FILM of love, but in the end it came out somewhat impersonal," sighs Edgar Morin at the end of Chronique d'un ete (Chronicle of a summer, 1961), the sociologist's collaboration with filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch. Beginning with the question "Are you happy?," the film documents a group of Morin's friends in Paris, following them to dinner parties, at work, and on dates and getting them to reveal their innermost thoughts. A sociological exercise, an experimental film, a passionate inquiry into the meaning of Parisian life ca. 1960, Chronique d'un ete, like most of Rouch's works, defies simple ...