Grin Without a Cat

Narrated in part by Jim Broadbent, Marker’s dazzling leftist political history feels like a new genre blooming right before your eyes. Let’s call it “sci-fi guerrilla-warfare documentary.” The doc’s central thesis is that Marxist fighters in Third World Communist outposts were not officially supported by like-minded parties in more developed nations, while the “fragile hands” of earnest student protests in Europe never really gained the grasp that they needed. The movie casts an uncanny spell on 1968 and beyond. Do not miss.