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

| Apr 15, 2019

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

| Jun 6, 2007

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

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