La jetée
English release: La Jetée
Literal: The pier
In a world made uninhabitable by the Third World War, a prisoner is chosen as being the
only person with vivid enough memories of the past to travel through time and return with
salvation.
This 28-minute photo montage with about 1,200 words of narration has a nice
seed of an idea, but I find it insulting to other talented filmmakers that Time
magazine ranked this sketch of a film as #1 in their 2010 list of best time travel
movies.
— Michael Main
Tel était le but des expériences : projeter dans le Temps des émissaires, appeler le
passé et l’avenit au secours du présent.
Such was the purpose of the experiments: to project emissaries into Time, to summon
the Past and the Future to the aid of the Present.