Sunday in Peking (1956) directed by Chris Marker
Viewed July 6, 2019
Filled with gorgeous color images of Peking, this film would be a mildly interesting travelogue were it not for Marker's commentary. The film is launched through a beloved picture book from his childhood that transported him then in his imagination to Peking and, in this film, in reality to the land of his imagination. Throughout the film, the voiceover narration makes connections both to his childhood (for example, the silver wrappings of the chocolates his mother had him save for the poor Chinese children) and to movies (for example, a squalid neighborhood that could be a scene from a Humphrey Bogart film.)
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