The Case of the Grinning Cat (TV 2004)
"Chats perchés" (original title)

Paris 2002. Yellow cats appears on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq...).

Director:

Chris Marker

Writer:

Chris Marker

Stars:

Bertrand Cantat, Dieudonné, Léon Schwartzenberg

Cast

Credited cast:
Bertrand Cantat	...	Himself - 1999 concert (archive footage)
Dieudonné	...	Himself - demonstration (archive footage)
Léon Schwartzenberg	...	Himself - demonstration (archive footage)

Storyline

Monsieur Chat is a character (a yellow grinning cat) which appeared on Paris walls at the beginning of the years 2000. Following its steps, Chris Marker is depicting the very recent french history (elections, demonstrations, state scandals etc.) through the perceptive eye of this strange graffiti...

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French Eastern Frisian

Release Date:

5 December 2004 (France)

Also Known As:

The Case of the Grinning Cat

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Box Office

Budget:

€150,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Films du Jeudi, Les, Arte France

Technical Specs

Runtime:

59 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film was broacast on television and edited on DVD in the same time.

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Connections

Features Hôtel du Nord (1938)

User Reviews

irrelevant and utterly without focus

I really hated this.

Firstly, it was horribly shot - basically the editing and picture quality was comparable to a Handicam movie.

The narration was infuriating and the concept incredibly muddled.

In the end it was a documentary about almost nothing.

Was it about war, urban subcultural memes or both? It ended up not really being about neither.

Very disappointing.

Thank god it was only one hour long.

The extras on the DVD are even more depressingly pointless.

I don't understand how this even made it to DVD.