This very short movie (21 minutes), shot on Super 8mm, is quite painful to watch. The surface of the film is (deliberately?
There is no denying that Chris Marker was a master of cinema, one of the finest filmmakers working in documentary/avant garde/short movie-making; however, this does not necessarily mean that the man could "do no wrong". while I most certainly appreciated and liked "The Embassy", I still feel the need to criticize it to an extent.