In the summer of 1960, ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin sent two women out into the streets of Paris to ask passersby, "Êtes-vous heureux?" (Are you happy?) Out of this simple question, the inner lives of the characters are revealed in this provocative documentary. They include a Holocaust survivor; a worker who does grueling shifts in a Renault factory; a student from Côte d'Ivoire; and a young, beautiful, and deeply depressed Italian immigrant. A landmark in film history, Rouch and Morin were among the first filmmakers to use hand-held sync sound 16mm equipment. The also coined the term cinéma vérité to describe their approach, although their practice, placing people in situations and provoking responses, differs from what later came to be called vérité. The film's self-reflexive structure, where the film is screened for the participants for their critique, is still amazingly contemporary
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