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The Lovely Month of May + Q&A

Le Joli Mai
Directed byChris Marker, Pierre Lhomme

The Lovely Month of May + Q&A

Le Joli Mai
Directed byChris Marker, Pierre Lhomme
  • ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FR
  • SUBTITLES EN
  • COUNTRY France
  • 1962
  • Duration 165
  • Prices 6.00 €

Introducing

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme take viewers back in time with the French Documentary “Le Joli Mai”. By incorporating multiple interviews from various Parisian citizens, this documentary delivers daily life in France during the 1960s to viewers in a way that unpacks unfiltered opinions and thoughts about the political and cultural state of France in the past.

Synopsis

A month in a town, May 1962, Paris is pictured by Chris Marker and his team, close to the pavement and the people’s faces. “In this first month of peace for seven year”, the Algerian war just ended with the Evian agreement, what are the Parisians doing, what are they thinking? War and politics? Everyone is avoiding the matters, the interviewer is surprised: why the French, who usually loves to discuss, are so muted?

Introducing

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme take viewers back in time with the French Documentary “Le Joli Mai”. By incorporating multiple interviews from various Parisian citizens, this documentary delivers daily life in France during the 1960s to viewers in a way that unpacks unfiltered opinions and thoughts about the political and cultural state of France in the past.

Synopsis

A month in a town, May 1962, Paris is pictured by Chris Marker and his team, close to the pavement and the people’s faces. “In this first month of peace for seven year”, the Algerian war just ended with the Evian agreement, what are the Parisians doing, what are they thinking? War and politics? Everyone is avoiding the matters, the interviewer is surprised: why the French, who usually loves to discuss, are so muted?

Guest(s)

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    Jean-Michel Frodon

    Journalist, critic, teacher, film historian

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    Manon Kerjean

    Founder Lost in Frenchlation, mediator

Additional information

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