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The Lovely Month of May

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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.

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Status: Released

Released Date: 1963-05-01

Runtime: 165 mins

Director: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme

Writer: Catherine Winter, Chris Marker

Spoken language: Français

Genres: Documentary

Original title: The Lovely Month of May

Production Companies: Sofracima

Production Countries: France

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