 He was allowed to publish beginning in the late 1960s, with the liberalization coinciding with the early years of Nicolae Ceauşescu's leadership.At the time, Chimet also found employment as a lecturer at the "Friends of Film" club at the "Cinemateca" film archive, where he kept company with film critics such as Paul Barbăneagră, Tudor Caranfil, Eugen Schileru and D. I. Suchianu.His works of criticism touched aspects of Western culture that he intended to popularize in Romania