Genius. The latest “cine-essay” of Chris Marker is dense and demanding, a splendid reminder that his nimble, capacious mind has lost none of its agility, poetry, and power. Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon, the film leaps and backtracks, Marker-style, from subject to subject, from a family portrait of Bellon and her two daughters, Loleh and Yannick (the latter co-authored the film), to a wide-ranging history of surrealism, of the city of Paris, of French cinema and the birth of the cinematheque, of Europe, the National front, the Second World War and Spanish Civil War, and postwar politics and culture. Full of Marker jokes, wordplay, filmic homages, peculiar art history…the film traverses in its short time a world of thought, feeling, and history. A small masterpiece of montage...pure, marvelous Marker.