La Jetée (1962)

Directed by

Chris Marker

Genre

science fiction film, series of images, post-apocalyptic film, dystopian film, arthouse science fiction film

Country

France

Runtime

28 min

Rated

NR

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 1,008 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is sent back in time after a nuclear war. The story is told entirely through still black and white photographs.

contemplativehauntingmelancholicunsettlingdreamlikebleakcerebral

What happens

La Jetée (French pronunciation: [la ʒəte]) is a 1962 French science fiction featurette written and directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film. The 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys was inspired by and borrows several concepts directly from La Jetée, as does the 2015 TV series of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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