‘Level Five’ Review: Chris Marker’s Insightful 1997 Film Finally Arrives in the U.S.

There’s an image that arrives about halfway through Chris Marker’s Level Five that still haunts me days after viewing it. Perhaps it’s been widely available elsewhere, but this was the first time I had ever been exposed to this horrifying slice of reality. During the Battle of Okinawa, inhabitants of the small Japanese island committed suicide en masse …