It's Paris in the summer of 1960. This film has no professional actors. It's everyday people and their slice of life in the style of the new cinéma vérité. A group of sociologist filmmakers starts doing interviews with different people. They grab them on the streets, at their work, or anywhere else. There are little fascinating snippets like the girl who used to make fake antiques. There are a lot of rambling discussions about anything. It must have been unlike most cinema from that time. This may not be the absolute first, but it is pushing the envelope wide open. I do find myself falling in and out of the film.
Review of Chronicle of a Summer
