A Second Look: 'Chronicle of a Summer' a snapshot of 1960 Paris

The French film, a self-described experiment in cinéma vérité, takes the pulse of Parisians by opening with a simple but ultimately revealing question: 'Are you happy?'As its title suggests, the seminal French film "Chronicle of a Summer" is a time capsule of a particular moment: Paris in 1960, the Algerian War entering its sixth year, the Holocaust still a recent wound, popular and consumer culture on the rise, and, especially among the younger population, clear signs of the discontent...