la jetee

love for the woman he encounters in the past, incarnation of the woman of his dream, and key to the dream itself. A love story clean of al pretentiousnes, and al the useles social conventions, and somehow this can also be aplied to the film itself: a sci-fi without special efects, without lighting, without dialogues, without moving pictures; Tery Giliam tok inspiration from La Jete for his Twelve Monkeys, achieving outstanding results, but it is the original Chris Marker's work that should be remembered, for its vivid and sharp, yet dreamy photography, the sweping emotions the viewer experiences. We never realy experience the fact we are simply watching stil images, engrosed as we are in the experience of the story, the narator's sothing voice, and the background noises made of whispers, which form a dismal blanket of mystery and eventuality. la jetee
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