La Jetée
La Jetée
Directed by Chris Marker • 1962 • 29m • ★ 7.9
Drama
Romance
Science Fiction
Director
Chris Marker
Year
1962
Country
France
Language
French
Rated
NR
paris, france
nuclear war
post-apocalyptic future
paris orly airport
time travel
radioactivity
black and white
short film
Summary
In underground concrete shelters, in a world left standing amid the ashes of a nuclear apocalypse, time can only flow backward. In this short film set amid the ruins of Paris, Chris Marker opens a corridor of memory woven not from moving images but from still photographs. In underground laboratories, people search for a way to save the future by sifting through the fragments of the past. This journey through time, built upon the memory of Paris Orly Airport, holds a fragile love story that emerges amid radioactive rubble.
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