- Actors: Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu
- Directors: Chris Marker
- Writers: Chris Marker
- Producers: Anatole Dauman
- Format: Black & White, PAL, Full Screen
- Language French, German
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Rtm
- VHS Release Date: 24 Jan 2000
- Run Time: 28 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CO6E
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,057 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
A man from a post-apocalyptic future is chosen to return to the past in order help save humanity because he's haunted by a vivid memory from his childhood of a murder at an airport. If that sounds familiar, you've either already seen Chris Marker's exquisite "photo-roman" or Terry Gilliam's loose remake of it, (Twelve Monkeys.) Good as Gilliam's film is, it's no substitute for La Jetée, which is the sort of cinematic experimental oddity that wraps around the imagination like a vine and, once seen, can never be forgotten.
A mere 25 minutes long, the "film"--really a series of still photographs run together apart from one startling moment of movement--begins in Paris before a vaguely described war drives humanity underground "to rule over a kingdom of rats". Sent back in time to the present (or rather to the film's 1962 present) by nothing more high-tech than an injection, the hero (Davos Hanich) finds the woman (Hél&eagrave;ne Chatelain) whose face he's remembered all his life since a murder at Paris' Orly airport. They grab a modest measure of happiness in their romance, conducted around Paris' museums and public gardens. A sly allusion to Hitchcock's Vertigo underlines the film's key theme: the near-mystical power of memory and the way an image can form the basis of an obsession, hence the film's use of ominous black-and-white stills, like scraps from disorganised family album. Muted and melancholy, La Jetée also sports one of the all-time great cinematic twists. --Leslie Felperin
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A still thrill masterpiece,
By A Customer
This review is from: La Jetée [VHS] [1962] [1966] (VHS Tape)
Amazing. i'd never heard of this film until yesterday when i went to see it at the ICA in London. It's incredible, as fast paced as an action thriller yet as dreamy as a romantic novel. I tried explaining the story to a friend and couldn't believe how long it took for such a short film. So much is left to the imagination yet you are engrossed in the tale. Any film makers should buy it, any thinkers should buyers, anyone with any passion, feeling or vision - buy it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb film,
By A Customer
This review is from: La Jetée [VHS] [1962] [1966] (VHS Tape)
I saw this on TV when I was a kid and it has haunted me ever since. The Terry Gilliam "Twelve Monkeys" movie was based on it. This, however is a much dreamier, poetic, allusive movie. Hardly a movie even: a fictional documentary of the future.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Packs a wallop,
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This review is from: La Jetée [VHS] [1962] [1966] (VHS Tape)
It is difficult not to see this work through the prism of Twelve Monkeys, Terminator and Back to the Future, to name the three main refractions. But even so, this is a short half hour that that presents a brain-warping vision with a clarity and efficiency that puts all the above to shame. The frozen moments of time, the disembodied narration, the ability to suggest tragedy and beauty through the use of the most simple of objects, all of these factors combine to make this an amazing film. It isn't just an avant-garde experimental flick, it is a film about how to tell a story, and about how sometimes the story tells you. I bought two copies of it a few years ago to pass around friends. Neither have come back, boo hoo, some friends eh... but I'll be buying another soon, it's that cool to have on your shelf.
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