Speaking as an unrepentant Marxist, I don’t think I have ever seen a movie that has spoken more directly to my concerns than Chris Marker’s 1978 The Grin without a Cat, now available on Netflix. Marker’s last film also spoke to these concerns as might be indicated by its title The Last Bolshevik, a study of Russian director Soviet film-maker Alexander Medvedkin who lived from 1900 to 1989. Like me, and like Marker, Medvedkin remained a revolutionary socialist till the very end—unrepentant, so to speak.
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