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Maydays / Grands soirs et petits matins
Series: 1968: An International Perspective [April 29-May 14]
Director: William Klein, Country: France, Runtime: 97

“Klein puts the viewer in the midst of protest in Paris in late May and early June, 1968, and conveys the heady exhilaration and rapid deflation of those who made the epochal revolt as well as an extraordinarily lucid view of the forces at work on all sides.” - Richard Brody, The New Yorker

"EXTRAORDINARY! You'll feel like you are there." - Time Out New York

American-born, France-based photographer/filmmaker William Klein was in Paris in 1968 when the first protests began spilling out onto to the streets. He followed the growing unrest as it moved beyond the city's limits and gained a cross-section of students, workers and more. He also captured the emergence of some of the movement’s leaders, such as Daniel Cohn-Bendit, aka Dany the Red. Maydays is his extraordinary chronicle of those extraordinary weeks: the rawness in Klein’s work allows us to experience events as they happen, presenting them in all their confusion and contradiction while capturing the heady elation of feeling that accompanies a landmark historical moment as it is happening.

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