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Level Five (film)

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Level Five
DVD cover
Directed byChris Marker
Written byChris Marker
Produced byAnatole Dauman
Françoise Widhoff
StarringCatherine Belkhodja
CinematographyYves Angelo
Gérard de Battista
Chris Marker
Release date
  • 19 February 1997 (1997-02-19)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$24,751[1]

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

Plot

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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

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Reception

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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

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  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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