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Features some disturbing clips.
A Grin Without a Cat(Le fond de l'air est rouge)
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France · 1977
3h 0m
Director Chris Marker
Starring Laurence Guvillier, Davos Hanich, François Maspero, Yves Montand
Genre Documentary, War, History
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French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
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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.
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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.
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More impressionistic than analytical, A Grin Without a Cat is a grand immersion.
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
By turns brilliant and tedious, imaginative and mundane.
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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."
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One of the most towering and extraordinary films to grace the screen.
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A remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution.
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