1990 · comedy · drama · family
May Fools
Directed by Louis Malle1h 47m1990
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
Our read: May Fools (1990) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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