La jetée
English release: La Jetée Literal: The pier
written and directed by Chris Marker
In a world made uninhabitable by the Third World War, a prisoner is chosen as being the
only person with vivid enough memories of the past to travel through time and return with
salvation.
This 28-minute photo montage with about 1,200 words of narration has a nice seed of an idea, but I find it insulting to other talented filmmakers that Time magazine ranked this sketch of a film as #1 in their 2010 list of best time travel movies.
— Michael Main
Tel était le but des expériences : projeter dans le Temps des émissaires, appeler le
passé et l’avenit au secours du présent.
Such was the purpose of the experiments: to project emissaries into Time, to summon
the Past and the Future to the aid of the Present.
English
La jetée written and directed by Chris Marker (at
movie theaters, France, 16 February 1962).