Level Five (film)

Level Five
Level Five
	DVD cover
Directed by	Chris Marker
Written by	Chris Marker
Produced by	Anatole Dauman; Françoise Widhoff
Starring	Catherine Belkhodja
Cinematography	Yves Angelo; Gérard de Battista; Chris Marker
Release date	19 February 1997;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$24,751

Level Five is a 1997 French pseudo-documentary or fake documentary film, directed by Chris Marker and starring Catherine Belkhodja.

Plot[edit]

Laura, the widow of a computer programmer. Attempts to overcome her grief by completing her late husband's last work, a video game reconstruction of the Battle of Okinawa in which she hopes to simulate an alternative outcome to the historical tragedy. All the while she documents the process, intending to provide the material for a new film by her late husband's friend Chris Marker.

Cast[edit]

Catherine Belkhodja as Laura
Chris Marker as himself and narrator
Kenji Tokitsu, martial artist, interviewed as himself
Nagisa Oshima, cineast, interviewed as himself
Ju'nishi Ushiyama as himself
Kinjo Shigeaki as himself

Reception[edit]

Keith Uhlich of The A.V. Club named the re-release of Level Five the sixth-best film of 2014, tying it with The Congress.^[2]

References[edit]

^ "Level Five". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^ "2014 Favorites With Keith Uhlich (Part 1)". The Cinephiliacs. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2020.

External links[edit]

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[BOM-1] "Level Five". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

[2] "2014 Favorites With Keith Uhlich (Part 1)". The Cinephiliacs. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2020.

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