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La Jetée (1962)
Director: Chris Marker
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This classic 'photo-roman' about the power of memory - 'the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood' - begins at Orly airport a few years before WWIII. That image is of a woman's face at the end of the pier; and in the post-apocalyptic world the man now inhabits as a prisoner, he is given the chance to discover its true significance as a guinea-pig in a time travel experiment. Marker uses monochrome images recognisably from the past, such as the ruins of Europe after WWII, and with a few small props and effects, subtly suggests a future environment. The soundtrack's texture is similarly sparse, and the fluid montage leads the viewer into the sensation of watching moving images. Until, that is, an extraordinary epiphany when an image genuinely does move: the man's sleeping lover opens her eyes.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: Chris Marker
Cast: Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, William Klein, Ligia Branice, Etienne Becker full cast
Duration: 29 mins
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