The Lovely Month of May
May 01 1963
•3h 45m
•Documentary
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
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Yves Montand
Narrator (French version) (voice)
Chris Marker
Self / Interviewer (voice)
Jean-Luc Godard
Self (uncredited)
Anna Karina
Self (uncredited)
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