May Fools
(Milou en mai)
Screening on Film
Directed by Louis Malle.
With Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy.
France/Italy, 1989, 35mm, color, 108 min.
French with English subtitles.
With Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy.
France/Italy, 1989, 35mm, color, 108 min.
French with English subtitles.
A family gathering at a country home provides an amusing diversion from the tumultuous May 1968 student uprisings in Paris. When the matriarch passes away, the family members gather for her funeral and squabble over how to settle her estate. As the country begins to shut down, the siblings are stranded with their mother's corpse by striking morticians, and they fall into various states of transgression. Malle described the film as a "divertimento," an appropriate designation for a film that shows the satirical influences of Anton Chekhov and Jean Renoir.
