La jetée (1962)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.3/10   

Director:

Chris Marker

Guionista:

Chris Marker (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

marzo 1966 (UK)

Género:

Corto | Drama | Romance | Ciencia-Ficción

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Memory | Paris | Childhood | Childhood Memory | Time Travel

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Two viewings 30 years apart

Reparto

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)

También conocida como:

The Pier
La jetée (Argentina) (festival title) [es]

Duración:

28 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés | Alemán

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

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

Locaciones de Filmación:

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

Compañía:

Argos Films

Trivialidades:

Chris Marker's only fiction movie.

Citas:

Narrator: Above ground, Paris, like most of the world, was uninhabitable, riddled with radioactivity. The victors stood guard over a kingdom of rats.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Tanin no kao (1966)

Two viewings 30 years apart

I first saw "La Jetee" in an introductory journalism class in the spring of 1973. The class was large, so large, in fact, that it was held in an auditorium rather than a conventional classroom. But when the film ended, there was about 30 seconds of stone-silence before the murmuring began. I sat slack-jawed and stunned and looked at Mary Ann, a girl who sat next to me and who I was slowly becoming friends with, to check her reaction. She looked equally stunned.

Thirty years have passed and I have occasionally revisited that moment. Despite wanting to know Mary Ann better, I was too timid and never saw her again after that semester ended and despite being stunned by the film, for some reason, I had lost track of its title. All I remembered was a haunting scene at an airport with a guy wearing glasses. That was it.

Just the other day and for no reason at all, I remembered the title "La Jetee" out of the blue. The name just popped into my head. And, even stranger, when I was checking the TV listings earlier today, I found that "La Jetee" was being shown on the Sundance Channel later.

I just finished watching it and I am as slack-jawed and stunned as I was thirty years ago. I guess the next logical thing will be to hear from Mary Ann. Just so long as I don't have to meet her at the airport.