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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..
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TFCHooligan69
8Apr12
Strange, yet utterly fascinating. I'm still processing what I've just witnessed.
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.
Howard Orr
25Feb12
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
5Feb12
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.
rosemary
13Dec11
My favourite film of all time. Tragically beautiful, La Jetee is nothing short of brilliant.
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Dibyajyoti Sarma
15Nov11
Perhaps the only example when we can say that cinema is not about moving images. These still images move in our minds, in our dreams...
Rossoneri Ultra
26Aug11
Chris Marker reminds us that cinema at its core is image & sound. Brilliant stuff.
Paula Ramos Salas
18Aug11
"A Orly, le dimanche, les parents mènent leurs enfants voir les avions en partance. De ce dimanche, l'enfant dont nous racontons l'histoire devait revoir longtemps le soleil fixe, le dècor planté au bout de la jetée, et un visage de femme..."
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Shelley
1Aug11
pounding heartbeats, dark stills, one single moving image, time traveling/experiments. I loved the extra thing they have on the DVD about it's relation to "Vertigo". at first I was not fond of it just being made up of stills but it turned out to be perfectly beautiful. the last 10 minutes was the best part. I love the darkness/lightness of this movie. it will haunt you
tSherrell
16May11
Years after falling in love with a snippet during my first film class, this weekend, I finally viewed the full work. La Jetée is an incredible accomplishment that will most definitely stand the test of time. The entire film takes the viewer into a transfixed state - but I will confess, after so many still images, I felt myself shutter when the woman, from her bed, opens her eyes and looks into the camera.
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odilonvert
1May11
Love, love, love this film. Such a different approach with stills, voice over narration, and that little bit of moving image. The story is interesting, although I'm not a big fan of this type of futuristic thought, meditation on memory, etc etc. What captured me the most was the technique combined with the narration. And I wonder whether there are any imitators out there...
Susanna-Cole
26Mar11
The museum sequence, which was the loveliest of them all, left me with an overwhelming sense of lost memory and déjà vu.
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Anton Williams
19Mar11
Orly is wonderful! Grain on the B&W photos is great! But movie is completly boring.
Miki Brunou
19Feb11
I wonder why it took me so many years to see this film. It really is as enchanting as I had been told.
