La jetée (1962)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Chris Marker

Writer:

Chris Marker (screenplay)

Release Date:

16 February 1962 (France)

Genre:

Short | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Plot:

In a devastated Paris in the aftermath of WWIII, The few surviving humans begin researching time travel...

Plot Keywords:

Time Travel | Childhood Memory | Childhood | Memory | Surrealism

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Jean Négroni	...	Narrator (voice)
Hélène Chatelain	...	The Woman
Davos Hanich	...	The Man
Jacques Ledoux	...	The Experimenter
André Heinrich
Jacques Branchu
Pierre Joffroy
Étienne Becker
Philbert von Lifchitz
Ligia Branice	...	A woman from the future (as Ligia Borowczyk)
Janine Klein	...	A woman from the future
William Klein	...	A man from the future (as Bill Klein)
Germano Facetti		(as Germano Faccetti)

Also Known As:

The Pier (International: English title)

Runtime:

28 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Argentina:Unrated | Finland:K-8 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Orly Airport, Orly, Val-de-Marne, France

Company:

Argos Films

Trivia:

This movie was inspired by a scene from Vertigo (1958).

Quotes:

[last lines]
Narrator: He ran toward her. And when he recognized the man who'd trailed him from the camp, he realized there was no escape out of time, and that that moment he'd been granted to see as a child, and that had obsessed him forever after... was the moment of his own death.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Tanin no kao (1966)

experimental, elegaic, profound, beautiful, and mysterious

This is one of the most stunning short films ever made. Marker has pieced together an oblique, sci-fi setting for marvelous still photography; when there is movement, it is a cause for joy! Everyone who is a cineast should see this film: it's that good and it's that important!