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Sunday in Peking
Sunday in Peking
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SUNDAY IN PEKING

Dimanche à Pekin

Directed by Chris Marker
France, 1956
Documentary, Short

Synopsis

Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking – a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.

Synopsis

Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking – a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.

Our take

Chris Marker leads us on a colorful and kinetic sojourn through a Maoist Peking in the forward-marching throes of modernization. This idealized vision of a nation—seen here in its shining displays of dances, acrobatics and child’s play—is filtered through the ever-curious mind of a roving auteur.