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La Jetée ( French pronunciation: [la ʒəte]) is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel.
La Jetée: Directed by Chris Marker. With Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux. The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
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- Short, Drama, Romance
- Chris Marker
- 1962-02-16
Written by Connecticut prep-school teacher Tom Andrews, this study guide describes La Jetée as “a brilliant mixture of fantasy and pseudo-scientific romance” that “explores new dramatic territory and forms, and rushes with a stunning logic and a powerful impact to its shocking climax.”.
Chris Marker’s La Jetée is the kind of film that haunts the brain. This quality is attributable not only to its unforgettable postapocalyptic imagery but also to its soundscapes, as spare as they are ravishing and mysterious.
- The Woman, The Man
La Jetée est un film français de science-fiction de Chris Marker, sorti en 1962 et d'une durée de 28 minutes. Ce film expérimental, considéré comme un chef-d'œuvre par nombre de critiques et de réalisateurs, est présenté comme un « photo-roman » par le générique.
Jun 25, 2007 · However you define Chris Marker's 1963 short La Jetée—philosophical fiction, genre exercise, treatise on cinematic time—one fact is unavoidable: it resembles few other films. In fact, La Jetée does not define itself as a film at all—its credits identify it as “un photo-roman.”
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Sep 26, 2012 · Chris Marker, who died earlier this year at 91, was an enigmatic figure, reluctant to be photographed and prone to biographical embellishment. A creature of the European postwar avant-garde,...
