Le Joli Mai (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Icarus Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme | |
Narrated by | Yves Montand & Simone Signoret | |
Composition by | Michel Legrand |
Entertainment Reviews:
Documents on-the-street talks with a wide variety of Paris residents.
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Village Voice
What is astonishing about the movie, even today, is the joie de vivre, cinematic and otherwise, with which it levels its critique.
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ARTINFO.com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A distinctive preservation of the lives and thoughts of the people in Paris during May 1962.
Film Threat
Dare I say so about a film by the much-admired Marker? It's only mildly interesting. Quite a disappointment considering that it's out of circulation for half a century.
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Arts Fuse
Rating: 8/10 --
The people and cinematography are compelling, and so, by extension, is this 1962 documentary.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 4/5 --
It's never fully uninflected like authentic vérité, but the material gets at a kind of truth: the chatty anxieties of shopkeepers, passersby, mothers and sons, all grappling with the changing world of May 1962.
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Time Out
Rating: B+ --
"Le Joli Mai (The Beautiful Month of May)" gives an historic insight into France during its evolution from colonial power to the socialist democracy it would become.
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Product Description:
Setting out to create an evocative portrait of his beloved hometown of Paris and to "track it like a detective with a telescope and a microphone," Chris Marker's astounding and astute film LE JOLI MAI emerges as an early example of Marker's unique cinema of poetic cultural anthropology. Filmed in May 1962, just as the Algerian war had come to an end, LE JOLI MAY sees a crew of interviewers and cameramen fanning out across Paris interviewing a compelling cross section of city dwellers on life, love, money, happiness, work, war, and peace. From a poverty stricken mother of seven who just received a government-financed flat, to outspoken teenage students at the stock exchange, Marker's interviewees respond to his deceptively simple questions with statements that encapsulate the complex, troubled, and exciting society of 1962 Paris during a period of psychological and social turmoil. Marker's highly subjective documentary style matches eloquent narration with illustrative montage. The film's visual and verbal wit matches the stark reality of its documentary footage with philosophical musings (voiced beautifully by narrator Simone Signoret). LE JOLI MAI faithfully captures Marker's sociopolitical vision of Paris, and it foreshadows the unrest that would erupt less than a decade later in the revolts of May 1968.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 83,234
- UPC: 854565001626
- Shipping Weight: 0.38/lbs (approx)
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