May Fools

Original title: Milou en mai

1990
R
1h 47m

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During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.

Director
- Louis Malle
Writers
- Louis Malle
- Jean-Claude Carrière
Stars

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7.2/10

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Director
- Louis Malle
Writers
- Louis Malle
- Jean-Claude Carrière
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 7 nominations total

Trivia
Jeanne Herry, who plays Françoise (the little girl) is the real-life daughter of Miou-Miou. In 2014 she directed her first feature film, 'Elle l'adore', starring Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Die Hard 2/Ghost Dad/Days of Thunder/May Fools (1990)

Soundtracks
Prélude: 'GENERAL LAVINE' Eccentric
Music by Claude Debussy

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8/10

I love this movie!

I wonder why it is not better known? You would think it would be, it is a beautiful movie, maybe not among Malle's very best, but certainly very good. There's a bittersweet feeling and it is also quite funny, as when the sisters are fighting over which one the mother wanted to leave her jewelry to.

Michel Piccoli is one of my favorite actors, and all the other parts are well done too.

Plus, the setting and photography are so beautiful. Somewhere in the Gers I think. When Milou is walking through the vines with his elderly foreman, I drool.

Just the sort of small, beautiful, mellow, not too elaborate country house and vineyard I want for myself when I win the Loterie Nationale!