In the mid-seventies, Janus Films published this La jetée study guide for junior and senior high schools. — Criterion Collection
He ran toward her. And when he recognized the man who’d trailed him from the camp, he realized there was no escape out of time, and that that moment he’d been granted to see as a child, and that had obsessed him forever after… was the moment of his own death.
La jetée (1962), cinematography by Jean Chiabaut and Chris Marker
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“This time he is close to her, he speaks to her. She welcomes him without surprise. They are without memories, without plans. Time builds itself painlessly around them. Their only landmarks are the flavour of the moment they are living and the markings on the walls.
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They should go on like this, in countless walks, in which non-spoken trust, an unadulterated trust will grow between them. No memories, no plans.”Chris Marker’s “La Jetée”
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