The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)

Name: The Case of the Grinning Cat
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2004-12-05

59m

Running Time

Plot.

Paris 2002. Yellow cats appear 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...).

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Cast & Crew.

Bertrand Cantat

Self - 1999 concert

Dieudonné

Self - demonstration

Léon Schwartzenberg

Self - demonstration

Marina Vlady

Self

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

Self

Frédéric Taddeï

Self

Chris Marker

Director

Details.

Release Date
December 5, 2004

Original Name
Chats perchés

Status
Released

Running Time
59m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2024-07-25

Wiki.

The Case of the Grinning Cat (original French title: Chats Perchés) is a 2004 essay film by Left Bank filmmaker Chris Marker. The film documents the mysterious M. Chat graffiti appearing around Paris, juxtaposed with post-9/11 political and international events of the early 2000s.The film is a sequel of sorts to Marker's 1977 film A Grin Without a Cat.