A Grin Without a Cat
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| - | '''Chris Marker''' (29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French [[writer]], [[photographer]], [[Documentary film|documentary]] [[film director]], [[multimedia]] artist and [[Cinematic essay|film essayist]]. His best known films are ''[[La jetée]]'' (1962), ''[[A Grin Without a Cat]]'' (1977), ''[[Sans Soleil]]'' (1983) and ''[[AK (film)|AK]]'' (1985), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker [[Akira Kurosawa]]. Marker is often associated with the [[Left Bank Cinema]] movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as [[Alain Resnais]], [[Agnès Varda]], [[Henri Colpi]] and [[Armand Gatti]]. | ||
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| - | His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais has called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man." Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique...The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker." | ||
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| + | '''''A Grin Without a Cat''''' is a 1977 French [[essay film]] by [[Chris Marker]]. It focuses 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. Using the image of [[Lewis Carroll]]'s [[Cheshire Cat]], the film's title evokes a dissonance between the promise of the global socialist movement (the grin) with its actual presence in the world. | ||
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A Grin Without a Cat is a 1977 French essay film by Chris Marker. It focuses 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. Using the image of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, the film's title evokes a dissonance between the promise of the global socialist movement (the grin) with its actual presence in the world.
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