A Grin Without a Cat(Le fond de l'air est rouge)

San Francisco Chronicle by

Features some disturbing clips.

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.

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.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

More impressionistic than analytical, A Grin Without a Cat is a grand immersion.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

By turns brilliant and tedious, imaginative and mundane.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

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."

Film Threat by Phil Hall

One of the most towering and extraordinary films to grace the screen.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

A remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution.