May 03, 1963
165 min
Full-HD

The Lovely Month of May (1963)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

France

Companies

Sofracima

Yves Montand

Narrator (French version) (voice)

Chris Marker

Self / Interviewer (voice)

Jean-Luc Godard

Self (uncredited)

Anna Karina

Self (uncredited)

Edgar Morin

Self (uncredited)

Alain Resnais

Self (uncredited)

Jacques Rivette

Self (uncredited)

Jean Rouch

Self (uncredited)

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