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La Jetée (1962)

NR Feb 16, 1962 Drama, Romance, Science Fiction 0h 29m
User Score
79%
937 votes
Internet Movie Database
82%
Rotten Tomatoes
90%

A man's obsession with an image of his past

Overview

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Chris Marker
Director

Top Billed Cast

Jean Négroni
Jean Négroni

Narrator (voice)
Hélène Chatelain
Hélène Chatelain
Davos Hanich
Davos Hanich
Jacques Ledoux
Jacques Ledoux
André Heinrich
André Heinrich
Jacques Branchu
Jacques Branchu
Pierre Joffroy
Pierre Joffroy
Étienne Becker
Étienne Becker
Philbert von Lifchitz
Philbert von Lifchitz

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Media

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La Jetée at the Akron Art Museum
La Jetée at the Akron Art Museum
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Reviews

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A review by Cyberknight
Written on September 29, 2019

The short film that inspired Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys" (1995). A man travels through time, to his life before World War III, guided by his persistent memories of the past. The story is thoroughly narrated, almost completely made of still greyscale images....

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A review by Charles Tatum
Written on September 30, 2023

This French short film, made in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, tells the story of an unnamed man who travels through time looking for help for the destroyed city of Paris. It served as the basis for "Twelve Monkeys," and, I theorize, may have kick started the central idea in "The Time Traveler's Wife." Translated as "The Pier," the film opens on a Parisian airport pier, where people can watch planes take off and land. The film has no dialogue aside from the narrator and some hushed whispering, so we are told that the unnamed Man (Davos Hanich) remembers being at the airport as a child before World War III, and watching a man fall and die. The image stayed with him forever, as did the face of a mysterious woman who was also there. Paris has been obliterated in a nuclear holocaust, and ...

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