The Ghosts of May 68

The Ghosts of May 68

2018

Edited from newsreel footage and footage shot at the time by Michel Andrieu and Jacques Kebadian, this film is a dreamy stroll through the places and times of May '68. We meet ghosts: we need them, we miss them. May 68 is still to come. Ghosts don't come back from the past, they are our future.

Directed by Jean-Louis Comolli

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