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Andrea Rizzo Pinna
24Apr13
La lotta contro il tempo. La vulnerabilità dell'individuo. I fotogrammi sono fermi. è l'amore o il sogno che concede il dono del movimento. Troppo avanti e troppo bello.
Mai Ragab El-Refa'ey
18Feb13
Progressive steampunk. An almost Neovictorian odyssey of astounding images (because this film has almost no movement at all in front of the camera, it's made of successive haunting images of grotesque human imagination). Perfect, perfect!
Muffinhead1985
9Jan13
Finally found a copy with English dub. Absolutely hypnotic. Every shot is perfect. In regard to imagery, fawless. Only negative point is the soundtrack. Detracts from the immersion of the experience and unlike the images themselves feels dated. Despite this it is still sublime.
stoyanov
17Nov12
It's fascinating how a sequence of carefully shot frames can be much more striking that a full-on motion picture. The pace of the narration as well as the music (pounding heartbeat!) complemented the beautiful photography
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dombl
2Nov12
A philosophical film about memories, time and love. And indeed one of the most beautiful love stories which has been told in cinema. Extraordinary!
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Scott Barley
27Oct12
One of the most stark, beautiful and effective science fiction films ever made.
Mark Garrett
5Sep12
If anyone is aware of a place to acquire the glasses show in the still, for the love of god, tell me.
Madame Psychosis
26Aug12
This time he is close to her, he speaks to her. She welcomes him without surprise. They are without memories, without plans. Time builds itself painlessly around them. Their only landmarks are the flavour of the moment they are living and the markings on the walls.
Daniel Montiel
24Aug12
I guess that being so familiar with the story undermined the power of the film a little bit for me but the beauty and atemporal quality of the images along with the perfect narrative construction and the powerful emotions in display here are stellar.
Heikan
16Aug12
It's amazing how this short film, told almost in its entirety with still images, can be more moving than some "moving pictures". Avant-garde? Maybe. Experimental? Most definitely not. This is an example of a mise en scène completely dependant on the main theme of the story: the unalterable nature of, both, shocking memories and fate.
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roger o. thornhill
3Aug12
marker channels vertigo and in doing so creates a sci-fi masterpiece that has inspired many who followed in his footsteps.....
Scottie Ferguson
1Aug12
Comparable to Vertigo in its evocation of human love and its connection to memories and the psyche. Fascinatingly audacious.
guidannr
31Jul12
Everyone remembers the first time in La Jetée. It was made in 1962, is 28 minutes, is in black & white and built almost exclusively of photographs. Has no dialogue. It's one of those unforgettable films.
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Trolley Freak
10May12
Marker's famous photo-montage, captured in still images on his Pentax camera, is a fascinating science fiction story with a time travel theme. A brief encounter with a woman at Orly airport is the memory that is unlocked by the captors of a man hiding beneath the streets of Paris after World War III. Enhanced by a haunting score, the film that inspired Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys is both radical and hugely influential..
TFCHooligan69
8Apr12
Strange, yet utterly fascinating. I'm still processing what I've just witnessed.
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Madison Killo
31Mar12
Probably the most intimate experience you could have with cinema, and with cinetography. La Jetee ruptures the medium of cinema in an entrancing way, and can be watched over, and over again.
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Howard Orr
24Feb12
A boy is father to a man, who doesn't wish to wake from his childish dream. No, that's all wrong. A metaphor for cinema itself, the vertigo of falling forever into dreams, unable to escape the allure of memory projected onto a blank screen, which makes us all willing children again. I suppose a diving-off point...
Matthew_Lucas
4Feb12
Chris Marker's avant-garde short film, LA JETÉE, may be made up almost entirely of still photographs, but its also one of the greatest and most influential science fiction films of all time. A man is sent back in time to try and save humanity before it destroys itself, where he falls in love with a woman he's never met. Marker uses editing and music to make his experiment strikingly cinematic.
