Chris Marker’s The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chats perchés) follows the appearance of the yellow M. Chat graffiti across Paris in the early 2000s, using it as a lens to reflect on art, protest, and politics in the post-9/11 era. Blending street imagery with footage of global and local unrest, the film serves as a playful yet pointed companion to Marker’s earlier A Grin Without a Cat.
Cast
Bertrand Cantat
Self - 1999 concert (archive footage)
Dieudonné
Self - demonstration (archive footage)
Léon Schwartzenberg
Self - demonstration (archive footage)
Marina Vlady
Self (archive footage)
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frédéric Taddeï
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jacques Chirac
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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