75
Features some disturbing clips.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
90
The New York Times by Dave Kehr
A Grin Without a Cat is a work of extraordinary journalism, but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry, visual (in the rhyming of gestures and shapes across images and sequences) as much as verbal.
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
It reconfirms Marker as one of the most serious-minded and artistically gifted filmmakers in France, or anywhere else.
80
More impressionistic than analytical, A Grin Without a Cat is a grand immersion.
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
By turns brilliant and tedious, imaginative and mundane.
70
Marker revisited (the film) in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union: He trimmed an hour and added a remarkably prescient coda: "Terrorism has replaced Communism as the ultimate evil."
100
One of the most towering and extraordinary films to grace the screen.
75
A remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution.
Its analysis is debatable, but its vision is undeniably lucid, a treatise on what could've been