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One of Chris Marker’s major films, LE JOLI MAI, restored and re-released at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, is at last available for American audiences.
A portrait of Paris and Parisians during May, 1962, LE JOLI MAI is a film with several thousand actors including a poet, a student, an owl, a housewife, a stockbroker. a dancer, two lovers, General de Gaulle, and several cats.
Filmed just after the ceasefire that ended France’s war in Algeria, LE JOLI MAI captures Paris during the “springtime of peace”–the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war.
With music by Academy Award-winning composer Michel Legrand, commentary by Academy Award-winning actress Simone Signoret, LE JOLI MAI is “illuminating and funny!” (Time Out Film Guide)–and an essential work of French cinema.
Original Release
05/01/1963
US Release
06/09/1966
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Yves Montand | Narrator (French version) / Himself - Narrator (voice) |
Simone Signoret | Narrator (English version) |
Jean-Luc Godard | Self / Himself |
Anna Karina | Self / Herself |
Edgar Morin | Self / Himself |
Alain Resnais | Self / Himself |
Jacques Rivette | Self / Himself |
Jean Rouch | Self / Himself |
Chris Marker | Interviewer / Self / Himself - Interviewer (voice) |
Directors
Writers
Chris Marker, Catherine Winter
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yves Montand | Narrator (French version) / Himself - Narrator (voice) |
Simone Signoret | Narrator (English version) |
Jean-Luc Godard | Self / Himself |
Anna Karina | Self / Herself |
Edgar Morin | Self / Himself |
Alain Resnais | Self / Himself |
Jacques Rivette | Self / Himself |
Jean Rouch | Self / Himself |
Chris Marker | Interviewer / Self / Himself - Interviewer (voice) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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André Heinrich | Producer |