Tuesday, May 12, 2020

La Jetée (1962)


Paris is destroyed after World War II and people living underground experiment to travel through time in a desperate attempt to save humankind.

A short film, revolutionary in its ideas and execution that was the inspiration for a well-known cult film, namely Twelve Monkeys. The gravity and depth are beautifully intensified by the long line of static images displayed with a sound background that only contains intense music, incomprehensible whispers and the categorical voice of the narrator. Short and effective!

Directed by: Chris Marker 
With: Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich

Rating: 9/10

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