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Dear French Film Fans (please forward to friends, students,
etc),<br><br>
You are invited to a DOUBLE FEATURE on Wednesday, March 11 at Coffee
Depot, Mission Inn and Vine - FREE SEATS, please BUY EATS:<br><br>
7:30pm WHITE MANE/CRIN BLANC by Albert Lamorisse, best known for
directing THE RED BALLOON/LE BALLON ROUGE, also 1953<br><br>
APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN<br><br>
ENTR'ACTE of 15 minutes, then<br><br>
8:30pm CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT/CHATS PERCHES, a 2004 film directed by
Chris Marker, best known for LA JETEE<br><br>
"In his newest film, French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on
art, culture and politics at the start of the new millennium. In November
2001, he became intrigued by the sudden appearance of grinning yellow cat
paintings on Paris buildings and public surfaces, and began to document
the mysterious materializations of this charming feline. Purportedly
looking to solve the mystery of this unknown artist, dubbed M. Chat, the
filmmaker uses it instead as a springboard to examine the city's changing
social climate -- from the pro-American feelings generated shortly after
Sept. 11, to the anti-Bush and Iraq War demonstrations that have become
so prevalent. He also looks at the demonstrations that took place during
the 2002 French election that saw right-wing centrist Jacques Chirac
defeat right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen. Eventually, the creator of
the grinning cats is revealed to be an art collective known as Mr. Cat
whose members are shown painting a massive representation of their mascot
on the plaza in front of the Pompidou Center. Marker concludes with
thoughts on the vital importance of such expressions of art and
imagination in our public lies, echoing the May’68 slogan that “<i>La
poésie est dans la rue</i>” (“Poetry is in the streets”)."
<a href="http://www.facecouncil.org/tournees/fichesfilms/chatsperches.html">
http://www.facecouncil.org/tournees/fichesfilms/chatsperches.html</a><br>
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