Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

Oct 31, 2023

2h 2m

★ 0.0

Overview

Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty of the new century, returns to the places synonymous with those incomparable and unforgettable films-- From the cat cemetery of Sans Soleil, to the mausoleum of The Last Bolshevik; The caves of Level Five to the rooftops of The Case of the Grinning Cat. A biographical portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest and most misunderstood filmmakers.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Biloxata

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Cast

Kaibyō (archive footage)

Chris Marker

Narrator

Daphne Alexander

Namesake of a Cat (archive footage)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Self

Moon Jae-in

Self

Nikol Pashinyan

Cameo

Tyson Smith

Cameo

Serj Tankian

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