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Jetée, La (1962)

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User Rating: 8.3/10 (4,950 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Chris Marker
Writer:
Chris Marker (screenplay)
Release Date:
March 1966 (UK) more
Genre:
Short | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
In a devastated Paris in the aftermath of WWIII, The few surviving humans begin researching time travel... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
stunning more

Cast

 (Complete credited 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 Faccetti
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Pier
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Runtime:
28 min
Country:
France
Language:
French | German
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Company:
Argos Films more

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Trivia:
Comprised entirely of still shot photography, except for a shot of the woman opening and blinking her eyes. more
Quotes:
Narrator: They begin again. The man doesn't die, nor does he go mad. He suffers. They continue. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Kicking and Screaming (1995) more

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29 out of 39 people found the following comment useful:-
stunning, 12 March 2004
Author: dbdumonteil

In 1995, Terry Gilliam made one of the finest movies in the nineties: "Twelve Monkeys". To explain how he made this awesome movie, he openly declared that he drew his inspiration from a French short film: "La Jetée". It is true that the 2 opus have similarities: both present a devastated earth caused by man's madness, survivors who take refuge in underground rooms and try to improve their grueling living conditions and especially both feature a jaded and manipulated main character.

A short film that is a reflection about time, happiness and love, entirely composed of static shots, "la jetée" is a powerful and mesmerizing work and it may appear as a cornerstone in French cinema. 42 years after its release, it kept all its strength and has not aged a bit. The quality of the editing, the photography and the commentary add to the success of Chris Marker's work.

Highly recommended and the influence of Chris Marker's short film on "Twelve Monkeys" shows well a thing: French cinema inspired a great number of American movies.

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