La Jetée

Yeah, I mean, there's so many good ones.

La Jetée is wonderful.

Oh, the Chris Marker film.

Yes, that's beautiful and so economical and just, I don't know, poetic.

It was a good time.

I didn't exactly plan it, but it ended up being a French weekend for me because I also watched La Jetée this past weekend.

Nice.

For the first time.

It's possibly only 50.

Sometimes people forget they can put short films into, just when I ask people, and someone recently did Le Jeté, and I was like, is that okay? I was like, yeah, the shorter the better.

If it's 20 minutes, let's do it.

And tell me, how long is...

It was

based off of a short called La Jetée, which I remember watching.

I went to art school, so they showed me stuff like this all the time, and I was just like, wait, you mean 12 Monkeys? I was more into stuff like that.

Like, no, that's 12 Monkeys.

I've picked ...

I'm probably gonna say it wrong 'cause I don't speak French, but La Jetée.

[upbeat music] Black and white science fiction French movie that became remade as 12 Monkeys.

Um, and I'd seen 12 Monkeys plenty of times, um, and never this, and didn't know that the conceit of this movie, which is so amazing, is it's just photographs with voiceover.

I'm sure 2001 is.

Mm.

I'm sure Blade Runner is, and then La Jetée, and then Miyazaki's got two, but I don't think those are sci-fi.

So yeah, there's, it's, it's, it's real slim pickings for, for genre stuff on lists like that.

yeah i mean it's it's also you know he's he's this man is from the future living underground the society's you know is has moved underground and he's being sent uh into the past uh so a lot of kind of plot is kind of the skeleton of the plot is, is a lot is, is, is already there.

I mean, in La Jetee, it's because of a war and in 12 monkeys, it's because of a virus.

But the basic, so, I mean, when I first came across it, I think, I don't know if I had heard about that the 12 Monkeys was based on or inspired on, but I first saw it when I got the DVD for Sans Soleil, which is another Chris Marker film.

So I purchased the DVD for Sans Soleil.

And so I took his class.

And in that class, we studied Eisenstein's Strike and La Jetée and A Boute Souffle, a whole bunch of more experimental films.

Chandelier with... eyes slashed in the very experiment night and fog.

And, um, about, I would say 30 years or 20 years after I had taken that class, I was emptying a box of old notebooks and I found my notebook from that class.