Cyril Cusack, Davos Hanich, François Maspero, François Périer, Jim Broadbent ...( see more  see more... ) , Laurence Guvillier , Yves Montand

In the early 1960s, at the start of the French New Wave, Richard Roud called Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Agnes Varda the Left Bank group, noting their rejection of bourgeois values, their commitme...( read more  read more... )nt to the literary and plastic arts, their risk-taking approach to filmmaking, their love of cats, and their left-wing politics. This chronicle is a 3-hour overview of the success and failure of the left during the 1960s and 70s as documented from interwoven footage from the Vietnam War, May ''68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, the Shah of Iran, Regis Debray, Salvador Allende, et alia.

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Directed by: Chris Marker

Release Date: November 23, 1977

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  • July 3, 2009
    One of Marker's most ambitious films. At the end of his 'militant phase' Marker wanted to make a film made entirely from found footage, and this results in an extremely dense work exploring the rise and fall the new leftist movement throughout the world during the late 60's to 7...( read more)0's. While a lot of the footage is of the talking heads variety, they are edited in an associative collage form that doesn't cohere to a set message or idea but instead form a sort of dialogue that examines the events shown in relation to similar events during that period of time. I found this much harder to get into than Marker's other films because there is so much history and politics that I'm not familiar with. While there are some of Marker's humor and wry commentary, the long passages of talking heads does make a lot of the film quite dry. This was his last feature before Sans Soleil, and the use of color tinting hints to digital image manipulations in 'The Zone'.
  • June 7, 2008
    fazer um documentário de 3 horas não é pra qualquer um. marker não é exatamente qualquer um, é um notório cineasta que usa o cinema pra se expressar diante a sociedade. nesse (com todo propriedade) longa, o diretor não se preocupa em apenas contar o que houve em paris naquele mai...( read more)o de 68, mas em retratar os movimentos de contestação num âmbito global, realmente amplo.
    uma coisa que achei engraçada na edição dele foi o movimento "de fora pra dentro" optado por marker pra contar a história desses anos loucos. ele começa " o fundo do ar é vermelho" num contexto global, se debruça sobre a causa francesa pra depois se jogar novamente no exterior. marker só peca por adentrar demais nos aspectos da esquerda francesa, o que faz o espectador descontextalizado boiar tremendamente. apesar disso, mesmo nesses momentos distintos, o faz sempre de forma profunda e não exatamente documental - o filme consegue, ainda assim, guardar uma poética única na edição de imagens.

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