• Producer(s):

    FILMS PARIS NEW YORK

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    1978

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD

Shot in black and white with a hand-held camera, this is the most precious, balanced and disturbing account we have of the spirit of May 68.

A documentary about May 1968. At the request of students studying at the Sorbonne, William Klein filmed events in the Latin Quarter of Paris. This footage was intended to be used as part of an umbrella film about May 1968 which, due to multiple dissensions, could never be completed at the time. The film is given over to the people, students, militants, union activists, those who in daily life barely have any contact with each other who can suddenly express themselves. We listen to workers, housewives, waiters, store owners, immigrants, school-children, pensioners, dissatisfied yuppies, repentent bosses, angry young men and women of every type and political tendency, whose passionate discussions ebb and flow across the city. Good intentions, rumors, revelations, wild dreams and speeches, incisive and far-fetched analyses, dramatic turns of events, plots, confessions, crises of conscience, good and bad trips and psychodramas. Talking and talking into delirium.