The Lovely Month of May (1963)
Original title: Le Joli Mai
The Lovely Month of May is a 1963 French-language documentary movie directed by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme, with a running time of 2h 45m. It stars Yves Montand, Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard.
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
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Cast
- Yves Montand as Narrator (French version) (voice)
- Chris Marker as Self / Interviewer (voice)
- Jean-Luc Godard as Self (uncredited)
- Anna Karina as Self (uncredited)
- Edgar Morin as Self (uncredited)
- Alain Resnais as Self (uncredited)
- Jacques Rivette as Self (uncredited)
- Jean Rouch as Self (uncredited)
- Simone Signoret as Narrator (English version) (voice)
- Charles de Gaulle as Self
- Ferdinand Lop as Self