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Closest Thing to Actually Being There, 16 mai 2007
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Grands soirs et petits matins 1968-78 (DVD)
There's surprisingly little information about this movie on the internet (at least in English). It consists entirely of footage shot during May and June of 1968, but for some reason wasn't released until 10 years later. Apparently it has never been subtitled into English or officially released in America, but as of this past week it has been subtitled into Japanese and is in now in all the major video rental chains over here. Why is it being released now, and why in Japan? I have no idea. If anyone out there in Internet land has anymore insight than me, feel free to enlighten my ignorance.
As for me? Since I don't speak French I relied almost entirely on the Japanese subtitles. I felt like I was about 50% comprehension. Maybe even a little less.
I would have loved to understand the speeches in the movie a bit more, but at a certain extent if I wanted to know the details about the May 68 Revolution I could read a book. The point of a documentary is to see the images. And this movie does a great job of doing that. The movie exists entirely of footage from the May 68 Revolution. (No commentary, talking heads, voice overs or graphics). As such, watching the footage in this movie is the closest thing to being actually there.
The camera in this film seems to have the ability to get anywhere and everywhere. We see the marching in the streets, the overturned cars, and the street barricades (if there is a category for the most times "The Internationale" is sung in one film, I'd say this film has got to be a show in for the record)...
But we also see the heated conversations on the street corners between ordinary people, the speeches in the crowded theaters, and the student planning meetings. The legendary Daniel Cohn Bendit is shown giving a speeches and answering questions.
The title of this film apparently translates to something like "Big nights and small mornings". And most of the rioting appears to have taken place at night, which doesn't always show up very clearly on the screen. Consequently the director focuses most of his attention not on the riots , but on the discussions happening on the streets and in the theaters, which occupy by far the majority of the footage in this film.
If you're a history geek like me, you will seek this movie out on your own without my prompting. If you don't like history, then you won't. But I personally found it a fascinating two hours.
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