La Jetée (1962)
Directed by Chris Marker
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
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What critics compared La Jetée to
Sci-fi zealots might find it fun to count off the references to “La Jetee,” “Planet of the Apes,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and “The Empire Strikes Back.”
It's a mixture of La jetée , 2001: A Space Odyssey , Planet of the Apes , Total Recall and Wall-E .
This sort of viewer-insulting writing is entirely typical of the film's continuing deference to simplicity, where every sensationalistic twist is either telegraphed too far in advance or all too cheaply withheld, the sum total of its gasp-stacking turnabouts little more than Moon meets a thinly veiled La Jetée —or, frankly, any other two science-fiction films with novel twists you'd care to name, since Oblivion is indiscriminate about the sources it rips off.
If Kosinski really wanted to make a sci-fi movie in the spirit of early classics like Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris as he has mentioned , then he should have engaged more fully with his characters’ personal crises and not added Morgan Freeman and Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to muddle things up, brooding around in “Matrix”-like outfits with capes and making big, dumb speeches.
Looper may not have the bell-ringing resonance of Chris Marker's La Jetée , one of its touchstones, but it's a jaunty match-up of genre and character drama that's far smarter and more finely wrought than almost anything else in the multiplexes.
Slamming genre cheap thrills together with high-art aspirations, Mr. Johnson spins a fast-moving entertainment out of a setup that could have been cooked up by the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick and was undoubtedly influenced by Chris Marker’s cinematic touchstone from 1962, “ La Jetée ,” in which scientists in a postapocalyptic world send, as the film puts it, “emissaries into time to call past and future to the rescue of the present.”
If I reveal that he is also named Joe, you can probably guess where this is going, especially if you can recall the central conceit of Chris Marker’s 1962 masterpiece La Jetee and its 1995 Terry Gilliam remake-remodel, Twelve Monkeys (which, of course, starred Willis): that of a young person encountering a time-travelling older version of himself.
Comparisons will be made to Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Terry Gilliam’s inspired derivative, 12 Monkeys, in which Bruce Willis also starred.
The 1995 movie, based on Chris Marker's La Jetee, was the complete entertainment package: humane, tragic, exciting, surprising and comical.
But Johnson doesn't settle for the philosophical; he revels in cinema allusions: in addition to 12 Monkeys and La Jetée, there's The Terminator (the main female character's name, played by a plucky Emily Blunt, is Sara), Memento, Angel Heart. . . .
What emerges is a film that mixes elements of old fashioned mystery narratives with the concepts from Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day and Chris Marker’s La jetée, which was more directly the inspiration behind Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys.
Sort of like “Groundhog Day’’ meets the old French brain-buster “La Jetée’’ (or its big-studio remake, “12 Monkeys’’).
At a glance, it looks like a mélange of time-travel touchstones—a dash of Looper , a smidgeon of “La Jetée,” even a bit of the farcical Back To The Future II .
All of which is more or less faithful to Heinlein's story, which preceded even Chris Marker's "La Jetée" (1962) as an early version of the now familiar convention of time-travelers on a mission to undo past catastrophes.
(There may be no Fizzle Bomber in the story but there is mention of a Fizzle War.) Heinlein’s brief, brilliant fantasy came out three years before Chris Marker’s short, La Jetée .
A bit. Back to the Future , Looper , Primer , Edge of Tomorrow , 12 Monkeys (and La Jetee).
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(It’s interesting that every time-travel-themed love story, from Chris Marker’s masterful “La Jetee” and “Back to the Future” to this, is haunted by death and loss, no matter how comedic the register.)
’50s-era photographs of happy families, or crying babies, or people enjoying soft drinks — that’s like a pop-art version of what Chris Marker does in La Jetée (among the greatest, most mournfully joyous movies about loss and memory ever made).
But "Paprika" is far closer in tone and intent to Chris Marker's landmark "La Jetée," or its mutant stepchild, "12 Monkeys": The sense of having no feet on the ground is not limited to the characters.
The inspiration for Twelve Monkeys, this film involves a stand of human survivors sending a traveller back through time to help save the human race.
Screenplay by David Peoples and Janet Peoples, inspired by the film "La Jetee," written by Chris Marker.
Basing their work on the script for Chris Marker's 1962 short "La Jetee," writers David and Janet Peoples add resonance--if at the cost of too much happenstance--by criss-crossing many of their characters' paths.
Inspired by Chris Marker's classic 1962 experimental short film La Jetée, Twelve Monkeys benefits from the marriage of visionary director Gilliam and two of the smartest screenwriters to work in post-studio-system Hollwyood: David Peoples (Unforgiven, Blade Runner) and Janet Peoples.
Based on Chris Marker's film La Jetee (1962, rel.
The script, based on another film, "La Jetee," written by Chris Marker, David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples, is very clever, but there are some logical problems.
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Even at 85 minutes the film is a little long -- it seems at times like an overbaked and repetitious Jorge Luis Borges story, when it would have made a brilliant short along the lines of Chris Marker's La jetée.
Something else that doesn't make sense, T5 also has a call-out to Chris Marker's La Jetée.