mardi 10 mars 2009

"La Jetée", directed by Chris Marker (1962)



La jetée (English: The Jetty and The Pier) (1962) is a 28-minute black and white science fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel.[1]

In French, "jetée" means pier. When air flight was first introduced, airplanes would taxi up to a concrete walkway built onto the runway that was at the level of the entryway to the plane. As planes changed over time, airports were forced to change to movable walkways and staircases to accommodate ever-increasing diversity.

La Jetee is a very scary movie about how the world would look like, somehow, after a nuclear war. The black and white succession of pictures with a melancholic monologue create a very disturbing atmosphere that makes you literally feel the doom of a "nucleared" world.
It is say this movie inspired Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys".

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