The Lovely Month of May (1963)

8.0/10 • 165 min • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

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)

Simone Signoret

Narrator (English version) (voice)

Charles de Gaulle

Self

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