Marker, with a disruptive aesthetic, experiments with the conceptual frameworks of film editing, but it is still a hasty and pretentious experiment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 7, 2025

The images of experimentation loop around and repeat themselves, exemplifying an idea of temporality and the dissonance of trying to re-write time or solve a narrative puzzle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2021

Operatic melodies and sensational orchestral music by Trevor Duncan make the film incredibly powerful, even at a mere 28 minutes in length.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 24, 2020

A brief experiment in film form, a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of what constitutes cinema.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Each black-and-white frame is striking, dynamic, surprising, and tragic; they mark you forever.

| Apr 15, 2019

The major influence on Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, La Jete is made up almost entirely of still photographs that tell the futuristic story of a time traveler.

| Mar 9, 2012

It's a stirring, emotional film about the unique hold memories have over people's lives and how experiences themselves are fleeting.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2012

One of the greatest films ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 29, 2011

Lovely.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 5, 2008

Always confounding even when it seems accessible, the mysterious and gripping plot raises unanswerable questions about time, memory and the progress of life on this planet.

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 1, 2007

Incredibly influential, dauntingly beautiful short made up almost entirely of stills. Inspired a generation of sci-fi directors.

| Jun 6, 2007

A remarkable and unique experimental short that consists solely of still frames, narration, music and sound effects as it relates an apocalyptic tale of memory and time-travel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2007

One of the best of all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short by the great Chris Marker.

| Jun 6, 2007

Eisenstein stripped back to the studs. Powerful, haunting, unforgettable.

| Original Score: 95/100 | Sep 8, 2006

The soundtrack's texture is similarly sparse, and the fluid montage leads the viewer into the sensation of watching moving images. Until, that is, an extraordinary epiphany when an image genuinely does move.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 24, 2005

I find it tediously pretentious, but there are striking images in it, and it does get across a vague impression of Frankensteinian meddling with the brain.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2005

This is Marker's masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 21, 2003

It is an essential fiction, a short story whose diminutive length does little to foretell its breadth.

| Jun 4, 2003

The most haunting sci-fi film ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 16, 2003