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Le Joli Mai

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 11036187Language: English, French Subtitle language: English Publication details: Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, [2013]Edition: 2-disc DVD deluxe editionDescription: 2 DVDs (146 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm)Other title:
  • Title from English subtitles: The Lovely month of May
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • DVD 554A
Contents:
Disc 1. Le joli mai: Part I. A prayer from the Eiffel Tower ; Part 2. The return of Fantomas -- Disc 2. Bonus features: Jouer à Paris = Playtime in Paris / un film de Catherine Varlin (1962, 27 min.) ; D\'un lointain regard... = A distant gaze... / un film de Jean Ravel (1964, 12 min.) ; Methode 1, exercice de cinêma en 1962 = Exercise in direct cinema / featuring Pierre Lhomme (1962, 5 min.) ; deleted scenes
Booklet. Chris Marker: passionate objectivity -- Pierre Lhomme\'s account -- Sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti\'s account -- Chris Marker -- Interview with Pierre Lhomme -- A discussion of the restoration work on Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme\'s \'Le joli mai\' -- Points of reference 1962 -- Credits -- Thank you -- Chris Marker, 1921-2012 [filmography] -- Pierre Lhomme, born in 1930-cinematographer [filmography].
Production credits:
  • Executive producer, Gisèle Rébillon ; photography, Etienne Becker, Denys Clerval, Pierre Villemain, Pierre Lhomme ; film editor, Eva Zora, Annie Meunier, Madeleine Lecompère ; music, Michel Legrand ; ; librettiste, Catherine Varlin.
Narration by Simone Signoret (English version) and Yves Montand (French version).Summary: Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, Le Joli Mai documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war.--www.icarusfilms.com
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3 Day Loan LSAD Library DVD collection DVD 554A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100579425

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A portrait of Paris and Parisians shot during May 1962. 'The first springtime of peace' for France since before World War II.

Originally issued as a motion picture in France in 1963.

Includes booklet in English.

Includes versions with and without an interlude sung by Yves Montand.

Restored with the support of CNC; 20 minutes from the original have been cut with the permission of Chris Marker.

Original mono soundtrack remastered in Dolby digital 2.0.

Disc 1. Le joli mai: Part I. A prayer from the Eiffel Tower ; Part 2. The return of Fantomas -- Disc 2. Bonus features: Jouer à Paris = Playtime in Paris / un film de Catherine Varlin (1962, 27 min.) ; D\'un lointain regard... = A distant gaze... / un film de Jean Ravel (1964, 12 min.) ; Methode 1, exercice de cinêma en 1962 = Exercise in direct cinema / featuring Pierre Lhomme (1962, 5 min.) ; deleted scenes

Booklet. Chris Marker: passionate objectivity -- Pierre Lhomme\'s account -- Sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti\'s account -- Chris Marker -- Interview with Pierre Lhomme -- A discussion of the restoration work on Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme\'s \'Le joli mai\' -- Points of reference 1962 -- Credits -- Thank you -- Chris Marker, 1921-2012 [filmography] -- Pierre Lhomme, born in 1930-cinematographer [filmography].

Executive producer, Gisèle Rébillon ; photography, Etienne Becker, Denys Clerval, Pierre Villemain, Pierre Lhomme ; film editor, Eva Zora, Annie Meunier, Madeleine Lecompère ; music, Michel Legrand ; ; librettiste, Catherine Varlin.

Narration by Simone Signoret (English version) and Yves Montand (French version).

Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, Le Joli Mai documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war.--www.icarusfilms.com

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1); Dolby digital 2.0 mono.

English version with partial English subtitles and French version with English subtitles; optional French subtitles for the hearing impaired and optional audio description in French.

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