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Grin Without a Cat / Le Fond de l'air est rouge Series: 1968: An International Perspective [April 29-May 14] Director: Chris Marker, Country: France, Release: 1978, Runtime: 180 “An intellectually elegant film essay… with brilliant paradoxes born of suave associations of images and a probing, whimsical voice-over, Marker brings together seemingly disparate facts and ideas in surprising, provocative ways (his take on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, in August, 1968, alone is worth the price of admission.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker “EPIC, LYRICAL… A documentary-essay of enormous power… The film attests to Marker’s eye for startling images and characteristic details, and the violence and strange beauty of those images is overwhelming to behold.” — Tayt Harlin, New York magazine "DO NOT MISS! Marker's dazzling leftist political history feels like a new genre blooming right before your eyes. Let's call it ‘sci-fi guerrilla-warfare documentary.’” - Time Out New York "This film is a mirror held up to each of us, a mirror that wanders through all the paths that we have taken or crossed (Vietnam protests, pro-Latin American movements, May '68, the rise and fall of the Left) and encourages us to reflect along with it about the journey and its goal." --Regis Debray Chris Marker's magnum opus Grin Without a Cat is a profoundly challenging meditation on the period from the mid-60s to the mid-70s. Described by Marker as "scenes of the third world war," the film weaves together images, sounds and themes of protest, defiance, solidarity and mourning to describe a moment when suddenly all seemed possible" and then, just as suddenly, closed. The film begins with the Vietnam War and the various international movements to support the Vietnamese in their struggle. Then it examines the causes of and reactions to May '68 in France before heading to Latin America and the birth (and subsequent death) of Allende's Chile. Essayistic in form, Grin invites dialogue and comparisons between and among the various situations depicted while pointing out those factors that also made each unique.

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