Le Joli Mai ("The Lovely Month of May")is a 1963 French documentary film by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme. Beginning in the spring of 1962, just after the close of the Algerian War and the Évian Accords, Marker and his cinematographer Pierre Lhomme shot 55 hours of footage interviewing people on the streets of Paris. After making Le Joli Mai, Marker made the 1962 science fiction short La Jetee. Le Joli Mai was shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.