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Three Cheers for the Whale

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Original title: Vive la baleine (Three Cheers for the Whale)
Year: 1972
Running time: 30 min.
Country: France
Director: Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli
Screenwriter: Chris Marker
Cast: Documentary, Self: Casamayor, Lalan, Valérie Mayoux
Cinematography: Chris Marker
Genre: Documentary | Half-length Film
Synopsis: Chris Marker's usual mix of "borrowed" pieces of different film textures (film, video, animation, photographs, paintings) serves as a poetic, passionate and very sound warning against the widespread, business-like, matter-of-fact killing of whales around the world. If today its message may sound obvious to most of us -- almost everybody is aware of the danger of whale extinction, though of course there are still killings out there -- it can still be enlightening as to the appalling methods of whale-hunting worldwide through the ages, as well as the very special place that this big cetacean has occupied in human mythology, history, economics and art, the "challenge" of little men killing the biggest animals on the planet, and making the most of it.

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Three Cheers for the Whale

1972

Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli

7.0

(86)