Maydays

A documentary about May 1968. At the request of students occupying the Sorbonne, William Klein filmed events in Paris’s Latin Quarter. This footage was intended to be used as part of an umbrella film about May 68 which was never completed at the time.The film is given over to the people who, in normal times, barely have any contact with each other and can suddenly express themselves.We listen to workers, housewives, waiters, store owners, immigrants, pensioners, yuppies, bosses, angry young men and women of every political tendency, whose passionate discussions ebb and flow across the city. Good intentions, rumors, revelations, wild dreams and speeches, incisive and farfetched analyses, plots, confessions, crises of conscience... Talking and talking into delirium.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: William Klein
Cinematography: Bernard Lutic, William Klein
Editing: Catherine Binet, Valerie Mayoux, Nelly Quettier, Ragnar Van Leyden
Sound: Harald Maury
Production: Films Paris New York, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel
Format: Digital Beta, Β&W
Production Country: France
Production Year: 1968-78
Duration: 100

William Klein

Filmography

1964-65 Cassius the Great
1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (fiction)
1970 Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther
1974 Muhammad Ali the Greatest
1978 Maydays
1980 The Little Richard Story
1981 The French
1985 Mode in France
1991 Babilee ’91
1993 In and Out of Fashion
1999 The Messiah