La Jetée

Review

[La Jetée] evokes much of the film's impact, successfully conveying its lyrical, dreamlike quality and its message of hope and love.

―Booklist

[La Jetée is] a remarkable short film about romance and postapocalyptic time travel...you can get a further sense of La Jetée's power in the photobook version...a superb job of preserving the sense of fragmentation, fragility, and stark visual beauty that has made La Jetée a classic.

―Wired

Review

“This book version of La Jetée is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful. It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal with dramatic events. Not a film’s book, but a book in its own right ― the real ciné-roman announced in the film’s credits.”―Chris Marker

“This strange and poetic film, a fusion of science fiction, psychological fable, and photomontage … creates its own conventions from scratch. It triumphantly succeeds where science fiction invariably fails.”― J.G. Ballard

About the Author

Chris Marker (born in 1921) is one of French cinema's most influential artists.