HELLO JEAN
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Malle must have been a big afficionado of Ethno-Cineast Jean Rouch. Rouch was the theorician of the "Ciné-Transe" method. Back in the 60s when filmakers were able to hold the camera on their shoulder and record the sound in synchronization (la synchrone), Rouch coined (along with sociologist Edgar Morin) the word "Cinéma-Réalité". In the movie Chronique d'un été Rouch and Morin went to interview Parisians during a hot summer. The real-reality of the dialogues, the camera-doesn't-lie aspect of the film was a wake-up call to a lot of filmakers.
The camera sees the world not only through the eyes of the cameraman but through the ones who are filmed. The aperture simply being an extension in the most objectif sense of the term.
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