TheCaseOfGrinningCat.mov

The Case Of The Grinning Cat / Chats Perchés by Chris Marker / France / 59 min
http://docalliancefilms.com/film/7217/?query=grinnin
A subjective news report about the situation in the French politics in the beginning of the new millennium. From November 2001 Chris Marker observed the events moving the social scenes: anti-war protests, president Chirac fighting for re-election, strikes paralysing the country, polemics over immigrants still held, communists with their propaganda.
He chases the picture of a yellow cat that appears in public spaces in different variations, and shoots a specific video-graffiti, an epilogue to his most famous film Paris in May.
In his documentary, the social existentialist Chris Marker again idealises social relations, while entering their outer movements with a camera, carried away with numerous demonstrations, dragged by the emotions of peoples gatherings, outbalancing the anxiety of the director, who, in all his work, has perceived the role of a man in the history as a complexity of social circumstances.

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