Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Jetée, La

Jetée, La (1962)


I looked this up on IMDB and it is a 28 minute movie by French filmaker Chris Marker. Here is the plot summary.

Earth lies in ruin after a nuclear war. The few surviving humans begin researching time travel, hoping to send someone back to the pre-war world for food, supplies and maybe a solution to their dire position. One man is haunted by a vague childhood memory that will prove fateful. Written by Marty Cassady, edited by Tsee Lee

There are many things in the story Kronia that obviously tie in with this movie. On page 130 she writes about both the time travel aspect and the nuclear aspect in the 5th paragraph. And then of course the whole story begins and ends with some sort of childhood memory, and the whole story revolves possibly around different fates. I would venture to guess that Elizabeth Hand really likes this movie, hah.

1 Comments:

Blogger Brian said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e

If anyone has seen Terry Gilliam's movie 12 Monkeys it's an Americanized version of La Jetée although it has an altered plot.

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