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Film · 1977 · Political documentary
A Grin Without a Cat
Directed by Chris Marker
1977
★ 2.0 editorial score
Chris Marker assembled hours of the global left arguing with itself between 1967 and 1977: a chorus of narrators reads his commentary, and none of them is given the last word.
“Marker is a commited Marxist, and he is also a sophisticated skeptic. "A Grin Without a Cat" is a film without a dogma, celebrating the promise of socialist ideas (the grin) while realizing that the brave new world they envision (the cat) remains elusive and intangible as its twentieth-century trial runs slip farther into the past.”
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1977Depicts 1970s
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