
The enchanting Turkish documentary Kedi works triple time as a nature documentary, a travelogue, and a meditation on the human-animal bond. Once upon a time, Rome was the ancient city famed for its population of street cats. Then in the 1990s, the cats were relocated to Julius Caesar’s former stomping ground, Largo di Torre Argentina, a no-kill sanctuary (the 2007 documentary Cats of Rome tells the story). Now they’re largely out of sight—at least that was my experience when I visited in 2009. Over the course of five days, I spotted exactly one stray slinking around the Roman Forum.
