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  Level Five 1997

  

  Ryan McSwain ★★★★

  An exploration of a chilling part of World War II that many would rather forget, wrapped in a metaphysical cyberpunk mask. The story sent me down the rabbit hole of…

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  Level Five 1997

  

  Rock Hyrax

  A bold move by then-76-year-old Marker -- to wrap a documentary on the bleak, bitter details of the Battle of Okinawa, the horrors of war, and the imperially-mandated mass suicide…

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  Level Five 1997

  

  Kenji Fujishima ★★★★½ 1

  It's heartening to know that, even two years after his death, the late, great Chris Marker still has revelatory insights to impart to us.

  My review of his 1997 film…

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  Level Five 1997

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★½

  Dawn-of-Internet Marienbad Online; it's conceptually/formally very engaging and it's got its poetic qualities, but then Marker starts editorializing and I wonder why I should listen to him splaining about Japan…

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  Level Five 1997

  

  BlakeTourville ★★★★★

  Why do material objects display such endless, willful mockery?

  A sci-fi film only Marker could make. If (when) an AI in the future decides to either kill all of humanity,…

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  Level Five 1997

  

  Zachary ★★★★

  Okinawa, mon amour.

  Level Five is one of the very last feature films of French documentarian/film essayist Chris Marker, and like a lot of his late career work, it heavily…

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  Level Five 1997

  

  Ben Hynes ★★★★ 3

  Re-locates the epistolary format of SANS SOLEIL in the era of e-mail. Prescient in its deeply humane understanding of how a tool like the web will be used, it obliquely…

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  Level Five 1997

  

  David Jenkins ★★★★½

  Initially a little ascetic as it dances around its elaborate framing device – an Encarta-like point-and-click game which instigates a circuitous, noirish investigation whose endgame (or level five) is a…