There are, if I have counted correctly, ten cats in Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's Le Joli Mai, including the graffiti cat above, the first to appear. The last is the cat belonging to the theatre seamstress, who has made a complete outfit for her cat:
She also has two drawings of cats in costume:
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(That makes a total of twelve, actually - I miscounted.)
The other eight appear as inserts or interludes, mostly in close-up:
The other eight appear as inserts or interludes, mostly in close-up:
The last of these gets special treatment, its gaze matched to that of the hooded motorcyclist on the cover of a book that was a favourite for Marker in his childhood:
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However, we barely get the chance to appreciate the match between cat and man because the camera whip-pans upwards so quickly that all we see is the top of the book cover:
The vis-à-vis is a joke for the benefit of those who can slow down or freeze the image:
Here are some cats in some other films by Marker:
Dimanche à Pekin (1956)
Lettre de Sibérie (1957)
Description d'un combat (1960)
Berliner Ballade (1990)
Le Fond de l'air est rouge - Les Mains coupées (1977)
Sans soleil (1983)
Le Souvenir d'un avenir (2001)
La Jetée (1962)
Si j'avais quatre dromadaires (1966)
2084 (1984)
Chat écoutant la musique (1990)
Mémoires pour Simone (1986)
Le 20 heures dans les camps (1993)
And here are some other cats in some other films:
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