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The Jetty (The Pier)

La Jetée

1962

Chris Marker

Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich ...

7.9

12,005

Sci-Fi. Fantasy The world is in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help. After a number of failed experiments, the scientists find one man, whose strong recollection of a childhood experience at Orly Airport makes him the ideal subject.

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"I find it tediously pretentious, but there are striking images in it"	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"A haunting 27-minute sci-fi masterwork"	POS
United States	Jaime N. Christley Slant	"History and memory (...) allow a cratered and disemboweled vision of futuristic Paris to be represented through images from WWII (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"[It] eschewed traditional narrative techniques to startling effect, blending documentary, fiction, fantasy..."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"With its brilliant conceit, which tightens the narrative and offers a lesson on editing fundamentals, the film reaches a conclusion common to a lot of time-travel stories"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"One of the best of all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short"	POS
United States	Jonathan Curiel SFGATE	"The bittersweet music, the narrator's steady voice that sounds like a scientist's, the museum-quality photos, and the gripping plot all make 'La Jetee' an inimitable experience."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[Marker] subtly suggests a future environment (...) The fluid montage leads the viewer into the sensation of watching moving images"	POS

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