Le joli mai

2-disc DVD deluxe edition

2 videodiscs (146 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm)
4 3/4 in
digital optical stereo
Dolby digital
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Title from English subtitles: The Lovely month of May [DVD]
Jouer à Paris
Playtime in Paris
D'un lointain regard
Distant gaze
Methode 1, exercice de cinêma en 1962
Exercise in direct cinema

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
Executive producer, Gisèle Rébillon ; photography, Etienne Becker, Denys Clerval, Pierre Villemain, Pierre Lhomme ; film editor, Eva Zora, Annie Meunier, Madeleine Lecompère ; music, Michel Legrand
Narration by Simone Signoret (English version) and Yves Montand (French version)
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

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]

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Becker, Étienne, 1936-1995, director of photography
Clerval, Denys, director of photography
Icarus Films, film distributor
Lecompère, Madeleine, editor of moving image work
Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019, composer (expression)
Lhomme, Pierre, 1930-2019, film director, director of photography
Marker, Chris, 1921-2012, film director, screenwriter
Meunier, Annie, editor of moving image work
Montand, Yves, 1921-1991, narrator
Ravel, Jean, 1927-1990, film director
Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985, narrator
Sofracima (Firm), production company
Varlin, Catherine, screenwriter, film director
Villemin, Pierre, director of photography
Zora, Eva, editor of moving image work