The Lovely Month of May (1963)
May 1, 1963Release Date
The Lovely Month of May (1963)
May 1, 1963Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Chris Marker
Self
Yves Montand
Narrator (French version)
Simone Signoret
Narrator (English version)
Jean-Luc Godard
Self
Pierre Lhomme
Director
Anna Karina
Self
Edgar Morin
Self
Alain Resnais
Self
Jacques Rivette
Self
Jean Rouch
Self
Antoine Bonfanti
Sound
Pierre Grunstein
Assistant Director
Catherine Varlin
Writer
Michel Legrand
Composer
Étienne Becker
Cinematographer
André Heinrich
Producer
Denys Clerval
Cinematographer
Pierre Willemin
Cinematographer
Anne Meunier
Editor
Madeleine Lecompère
Editor
Eva Zora
Editor
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Le Joli Mai ("The Lovely Month of May") is a 1963 French documentary film by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme.
Beginning in the spring of 1962, just after the close of the Algerian War and the Évian Accords, Marker and his cinematographer Pierre Lhomme shot 55 hours of footage interviewing people on the streets of Paris.
The questions, asked by the unseen Marker, range from their personal lives to social and political issues of the day. As he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary (spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version). The film has been compared to the cinéma vérité films of Jean Rouch, and criticized by its practitioners at the time. It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work. It also won the Golden Dove Award at the Leipzig DOK Festival.
Le Joli Mai was Marker's first project after he made the 1962 science fiction short La Jetée, perhaps his most famous film.
Le Joli Mai was shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.