Director: Edgar Morin
Cast: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Nadine Ballot, Marilù Parolini,
Plot: Paris, summer of 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, along with sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin, both assisted by Marceline and Nadine, roam the crowded streets asking ordinary people how they deal with the misfortunes of life. Are you happy? But their real purpose is to find out if people can speak sincerely in front of a camera and how they react when they are later invited to analyze the meaning of their answers.
Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, cinema verite and the problem of “actuality”
The late ’50s saw the biggest technology-based shift in movies since the coming of sound (the next big shift would be the arrival of digital technology several decades later). New highly portable equipment not only altered the way movies […]