2004 documentary from Chris Marker, rather good at times.
This is a picture of the city, but mixed in with politics in an excellent manner. By highlighting through the use of T.V. clips etc the dislocation, gives a different kind of reality to both sides.
The whole film is shot on digital video in a make-do manner, but serves well. A keenness to zoom in and out on the cats invite us to play a fun game of finding them. This whole film is surprisingly playful, with a lightness of touch as we come to realise that the cat comes to signify a certain idea of liberty.
This is ultimately a light piece, chronicling the experience of the political action against the everyday reality, which is shot with such little artifice as to become again fascinating. This isn’t more than a little bit if (though engaged) fun, but it holds the attention.
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