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Earth lies in ruin after a nuclear war. The few surviving humans begin researching time travel, hoping to send someone back to the pre-war world for food, supplies and maybe a solution to their dire position. One man is haunted by a vague childhood memory that will prove fateful.
Jan 1, 1962 Wide
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One of the best of all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short by the great Chris Marker.
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.
This is Marker's masterpiece.
This needs to be on your shelf, whether you picked up the 2007 DVD or you're eyeballing this one. Maybe you were waiting for Marker's low-tech genius to be reproduced in high-def. It was worth it the wait.
One of the greatest films ever made.
Lovely.
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.
Criterion has entered the zone. But here's to hoping they can expand through time and space to bring some of Marker's less famed works to Region 1.
Incredibly influential, dauntingly beautiful short made up almost entirely of stills. Inspired a generation of sci-fi directors.
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.
Eisenstein stripped back to the studs. Powerful, haunting, unforgettable.
Eisenstein stripped back to the studs. A very VERY great film.
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.
It is an essential fiction, a short story whose diminutive length does little to foretell its breadth.
The most haunting sci-fi film ever made.
A fantastic experiment in narrative and visuals. Highly influential, i'm surprised this formula has not been used more often.
September 26, 2007
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Talk about an amazingly brilliant and original idea, I can't think of anything that I don't like about this truly bizarre film. It takes every expectation you have about film and storytelling and throws it out the window. Chris Marker's style really takes hold in this, where as in something like Sans Soleil it is not
March 18, 2010Super Reviewer
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