The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.... (Full plot summary below)
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The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.
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| Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneLevel Five pictorializes the cruel moment when curiosity encounters tragedy, and the all-too-human abandonment of interest that can follows. |
| Boston PhoenixPeg AloiThis film demands every cell of your cerebellum, but its compelling surreality is hard to shake off. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderAlready a cult film nearly 20 years old, Level Five makes its U.S. theatrical debut, and the wait has turned the viewing experience into something even more meditative than director Chris Marker might have intended. |
| Film Comment MagazineHoward HamptonThe most extraordinarily contemporary thing about Marker's intricate matrix (in a William Gibson rather than a Wachowskis sense of the concept) is how beautifully it lines up with and enlarges the contexts of recent films. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottIts themes are a bit nostalgic and some of its technology looks dated, but there is nothing else in theaters now that feels quite as new. |
| The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe theories in Level Five simultaneously thrive in realms of computer science, ethnography, and cognitive psychology, while the picture remains cloaked by the emotional weight of a historical tragedy that marked an entire nation. |
| Critically AcclaimedWitney SeiboldWatching it in the era of Twitter does make "Level Five" feel like a distant lamentation on the failure of technology - indeed of cinema itself. It's a record of the questions we once asked, and how we essentially already lost the fight. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleIt humanely, intelligently questions the very nature of our desire to make sense of the past with the tools of the present, when the human mind remains the most aggressively obliterating battlefield of all. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsLevel Five (1996) is a poetic if occasionally opaque film essay on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. |
| OregonianJamie S. Rich"Level Five" plays like a lost CD-ROM rediscovered in some thrift-store bargain bin. |
