La Jetée (1962) Short Film
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. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Chris Marker
Written By: Chris Marker
Starring: Ligia Branice, Jean Négroni, André Heinrich, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, Jacques Branchu, Hélène Chatelain
Genres: Romance, Drama, Sci-fi
Franchise: La Jetée
Country: France
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TonythePony | 88 90% |
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I dislike most dramatic short films: superficial, pretentious with oh so clever twists. This is an exception. The stills presentation fits the dream like disorientation of the story and covers a lot of ground quickly. Mixing grand moments and intimate scenes it provides strong impact from tight constraints. Affecting and memorable.
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| 5 | triffid | 75 32% |
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The story is interesting, but the still pictures experiment doesn't really work, I'm afraid. Some of the photographs are very beautiful, though - it would have made a fantastic comic book. As a film, however, it is rather boring. But you know, I can imagine a talented director could use "La Jetée" as an inspiration for an extraordinary film. Preferrably starring Bruce Willis.
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MartinTeller | 82 73% |
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Forever linked with two bits of data: it's told entirely (except for about 4 seconds) in still images, and it's the inspiration for Gilliam's 12 Monkeys. I confess I was a bit less than impressed when I saw it about 7 years ago, now I'm more charmed by it. The still photography is a clever idea that makes it seem like a piece of history, a future archaeology. And the story is mysterious and engaging, with a kind of contemplative Resnais feel to it. Just the right length, too.
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PeaceAnarchy | 88 90% |
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The film is entirely still images with a narration, but those images are so effective that it still feels as if you're seeing the action, kind of like when reading a good book you form pictures of what you're reading. Marker gives you some amazing images and an interesting narration while your mind completes the picture for you, it was incredibly effective. The story itself was also quite creative and even though I should have seen it coming, the ending was very good and caught me by surprise.
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Bown | 88 88% |
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Very powerful stuff. The still shots really suit it, and it mixes some fantastic big ideas with wonderful intimacy.
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Magb | 90 85% |
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Yet another great film about memories. The still image montage technique Marker uses here is appropriate to the point of genius. The plot is very clever and the "remembering = time travel" angle is cool, but personally I was more interested in the more earthly scenes with the main character and his dream woman. I'm all about those simple yet dreamlike pictures, and the beautiful, ghostly musical accompaniment.
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Prince Sandy | 85 88% |
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I thought the idea of a film using still images to be some kind of art bullshit gimmick. However the effect is quite profound. It taps into something about the nature of time, and memories. It feels something like you are watching memories, which ofcourse you are. Set all Twelve Monkeys comparisons aside, the simliarities are superficial. It's more of an art piece that a piece of entertainment, not something that I usually look for, but at 20 minutes running time I can deal with that.
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mwgerb | 61 69% |
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The story is fairly brilliant, something like a combination of Slaughterhouse Five and a dystopic sci-fi. The visual quality is really poor, though, not to mention the experimental film style, and it prevented me from being completely engaged by the film.
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Mentaculus | 96 96% |
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This is the only time-traveling movie that makes sense, and a perfect fusion of form and function. Probably a perfect film (and a film almost entirely without motion! So much for that definition...). Blows my mind with every viewing.
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ribcage | 78 73% |
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It's a captivating short film, sweet, dark, melancholy, unreal, a touch of the ephemeral.
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Nathan S | 4 74% |
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It works. Unorthodox, but immensely enjoyable and quite beautiful. A wonderful blend of music and images.
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frederic_g54 | 9 90% |
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It's best sometimes not to read too much about a film, before exploring it; La Jetée caught me completely off guard, in good way of course. A story about time travel, society's survival and ultimately human experience, truly spellbinding.
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Darren | 90 91% |
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It's weird to me thinking about the "science fiction" genre (as if we need such labels but anyway) and what that usually means to viewer in terms of expectations. This movie basically inverts all those expectations and is a much more rewarding experience because of it.
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BillyShears | 100 98% |
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A stunning work. Not a single wasted image.
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djross | 80 91% |
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If VERTIGO was the inaugurating moment when cinema began to reflect on the many-dimensional connections between memory, dream, desire and the mysteriousness of time, then LA JETÉE is the reinaugurating moment when this reflective constellation turns back on cinema (and VERTIGO) itself, at the same time propelling cinema forward and into what will be a sequence of great and fascinating films all of which spiral around each other, and the analysis of which remains as a work for the future.
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Thoughtgraff | 100 97% |
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Minimal, poetic, and wonderful.
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backwardsuit | 85 91% |
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Highly transfixing and disorienting experience that ambitiously deals with time and memory by emphasizing the control of time in photography & editing. You could view the whole thing as gimmicky but I was thoroughly engaged all the way. One of the very few time-travel films that's almost believable in depicting the actual experience of it. There is something inherently cinematic about our relationship to memory and time.
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| 1 | gemtea | 40 2% |
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I have eclectic taste. I like many foreign, independent films, and those with personal expression by directors who have the guts to make films they want and have no concern about business, producers or even the audience. However, as high as most members here rated it, it came across to me as pretentious and boring. I am not criticizing the director nor am I saying other peoples opinion here are wrong. Check it out because it is different and maybe I just didn't have the ability to appreciate it.
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Elysian Air | 100 98% |
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In this exceedingly beautiful film the origins of cinema as a theatrical form is inverted; photograph to photograph are displayed belying the cinematic nature of motion, deceptively destroying the incantation of matter. Time is imprisoned in vials of amber as the finality of each somber image sets its last course. If there ever was a filmmaker who thoroughly imbued the spirit of auteur theory in every facet it would be Marker. Words cannot even begin to express the anguish of this visual poetry.
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bof | 88 95% |
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Sometimes, all you need to make an impression is 25 minutes. Or a few seconds. Or several hundred years. With a time machine, it pretty much adds up to the same thing.
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| 1 | futurememory | 87 87% |
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Time travel at its finest.
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| 1 | waddayanuts | 29 0% |
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Interesting experiment. Didn't work. I have now watched it twice and both times I nearly fell asleep. There's a reason why films are called motion pictures. Let's stick with that.
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AndreasThau | 91 95% |
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Half hour short film. Very apparent that 12 monkeys stole this film's idea, but I wouldn't hold it against Gilliam: after all most films are a copy, more or less. Apart from the great plot, La Jetée has something unique (potential wake-up call for every so-so director): Marker proves (with ease) that the beauty of the cinema can be said in a simple mix of style and voice-over. A storyboard like this and you will never fail. Look for movement; it's there. Plot is everything. Composition likewise.
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deaddilly | 80 72% |
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Transcends the medium by simplifying the medium. As a viewer you sort of melt and animate the images yourself as they transition seamlessly through time. Burning themselves in your mind as though they were your own fleeting memories.
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Eldred08 | 90 81% |
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Much deeper than Twelve monkeys...
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wetwillies | 90 80% |
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Not even really sure what happens in it, but the images are unforgettable.
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Ocelot | 80 89% |
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Overall, I thought this was better than "Twelve Monkeys."
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moraesfelipe | 95 98% |
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Chris Marker's unusual shooting makes this sci-fi short feature one of the best movies of the 60s.
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Barthalen | 85 92% |
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Haunting and beautiful at the same time. Telling the story with photos instead of moving images makes the experience more surreal, the viewer is kept at a distance and only short moments of time are understood, same as how the main character experiences his jumps through time. Great music as well.
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KasperL | 85 93% |
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Even though I had already watched 12 Monkeys, this blew me away. One of my short film favorites. Do see it!
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Anomaly | 86 88% |
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It's the film equivalent of reading a graphic novel, and what an interesting experience it is.
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Alex Watkins | 5 91% |
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I don't know how to really explain in depth, but there's something absolutely haunting about the combination of beautiful stills and low-key music. And it's a killer premise for a story, told very efficiently. Causal loops are my shit.
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Kojiless | 68 72% |
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Not sure if this could be called a 'move'-ie. Think of it more like one of those slide shows your creepy uncle Bruce would show you of his trip to random museums, airports, and the post-apocalyptic future.
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Pickpocket | 9 93% |
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An awesome experimental short that blends images and music together beautifully.
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Moribunny | 50 38% |
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It's an interesting experiment in time-travel sophistry, which fails, from a logical perspective, seeing as it presupposes a man outliving himself. You may say that this isn't the point, but then I wonder what is. The pretty still pictures as a narrative device are *just that*, and well, take away the gimmickry and nothing much remains here. Atleast 12 Monkeys has drama.
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JPFerguson | 92 97% |
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A slow sequence of images that is barely moving in the sense of constituting a moving image, yet a much more compelling viewing experience than most so-called films of 24 frames/sec (or more). Not to forget the haunting narration, sound effects and music. While it's likely this technique would make for tiresome viewing over a long period of time, it makes for an enthralling 30 minute viewing experience. Science fiction film making at its best. One feels time differently while watching this.
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