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01/05/08
La Jetée (1962)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 29 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: After a global holocaust, humanity's hopes for survival hinge on time-travel experiments conducted upon a man whose dreams reveal a clarion recall of a defining moment in his childhood, when he... [More]
Director: Chris Marker
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Reviews for La Jetée
Always confounding even when it seems accessible, the mysterious and gripping plot raises unanswerable questions about time, memory and the progress of life on this planet.
08/01/07
Incredibly influential, dauntingly beautiful short made up almost entirely of stills. Inspired a generation of sci-fi directors.
06/06/07
A remarkable and unique experimental short that consists solely of still frames, narration, music and sound effects as it relates an apocalyptic tale of memory and time-travel.
06/06/07
One of the best of all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short by the great Chris Marker.
06/06/07
Top CriticEisenstein stripped back to the studs. Powerful, haunting, unforgettable.
09/08/06
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.
06/24/06
No review available.
07/24/05
I find it tediously pretentious, but there are striking images in it, and it does get across a vague impression of Frankensteinian meddling with the brain.
05/09/05
Top CriticThis is Marker's masterpiece.
11/21/03
Top CriticIt is an essential fiction, a short story whose diminutive length does little to foretell its breadth.
06/04/03
The most haunting sci-fi film ever made.
05/16/03
No review available.
01/27/03
One of the most startling and haunting films to ever fall under the banner of science fiction.
12/02/02
No review available.
10/14/02
The narrator’s own haunting story is what makes this film truly mesmerizing.
08/21/02
No review available.
07/26/02
One of the most cohesive expressions found in the art form.
03/05/02
It's no exaggeration, finally, to say that La Jetee may represent film's closest approach to poetry.
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