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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Receiving its first U.S. release, Chris Marker's 1997 film, Level Five, concerns Laura (Catherine Belkhodja), a computer, and an invisible interlocutor. Laura "inherits" a task: to finish writing a video game centered on the Battle of Okinawa—a tragedy practically unknown in the West that impacted the way World War II ended. [Icarus Film...

Directed By: Chris Marker

Written By: Chris Marker

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 46 m

Level Five

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Summary Receiving its first U.S. release, Chris Marker's 1997 film, Level Five, concerns Laura (Catherine Belkhodja), a computer, and an invisible interlocutor. Laura "inherits" a task: to finish writing a video game centered on the Battle of Okinawa—a tragedy practically unknown in the West that impacted the way World War II ended. [Icarus Film...

Directed By: Chris Marker

Written By: Chris Marker

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100
Aug 14, 2014
It humanely, intelligently questions the very nature of our desire to make sense of the past with the tools of the present, when the human mind remains the most aggressively obliterating battlefield of all.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
100
Aug 12, 2014
By using Laura as an avatar, Marker actually helps us see the visuals and their knotty meanings much more clearly. The more we watch, the more Laura softens, until — in a mind-bending conceit — her very status as a fictional creation is called into question. The effect is ecstatic.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
100
Aug 12, 2014
Level Five pictorializes the cruel moment when curiosity encounters tragedy, and the all-too-human abandonment of interest that can follows.
By Steve Macfarlane FULL REVIEW
83
Aug 18, 2014
The theories in Level Five simultaneously thrive in realms of computer science, ethnography, and cognitive psychology, while the picture remains cloaked by the emotional weight of a historical tragedy that marked an entire nation.
By Nikola Grozdanovic FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 14, 2014
Its themes are a bit nostalgic and some of its technology looks dated, but there is nothing else in theaters now that feels quite as new.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 14, 2014
Level Five doesn’t achieve the poetic heights of Sans Soleil, but that might be because its project is more desultory; where the earlier work merely hints at the difficulty of looking at history without a filter, this sister film all but gives up the ghost.
By Adam Nayman FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 27, 2014
Level Five (1996) is a poetic if occasionally opaque film essay on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.
By Bill Stamets FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films de l'Astrophore, Argos Films, Canal+, La Sept Cinéma, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Cofimage, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Karedas, Groupement National des Cinémas de Recherche (GNCR)
Release Date Aug 15, 2014
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://icarusfilms.com/new2014/l5.html
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