La jetèe 1962

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: 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. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: One of the best of all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short by the great Chris Marker. Read more

Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: This is Marker's masterpiece. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: 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. Read more