A Grin Without a Cat is a work of extraordinary journalism, but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry, visual (in the rhyming of gestures and shapes across images and sequences) as much as verbal.
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Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
More impressionistic than analytical, A Grin Without a Cat is a grand immersion.
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution.
Marker revisited (the film) in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union: He trimmed an hour and added a remarkably prescient coda: "Terrorism has replaced Communism as the ultimate evil."
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New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
By turns brilliant and tedious, imaginative and mundane.