An American college student named Matthew (Michael Pitt) is in Paris in 1968 and soaking up as many movies as he can.

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The French government has seemed at times to be at a loss over how to react to the violence, which is arguably the most serious challenge to its authority since the student riots that rocked Paris in 1968.

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The most famous modern manifestation of leftish fury, in Paris in May 1968, seemed to him a Club Med affair of spoiled middle-class kids.

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But Debord's finest hour was in May 1968 on the streets of Paris when for a brief moment his philosophy suited the situation perfectly.

ECONOMIST: May 1968

Philippe Garrel, who, at the age of twenty, made a renowned film (now lost) in Paris during the turmoil of May, 1968, revisits those times in this intimate epic, which runs almost three hours.

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