La Jetée

La Jetée

A man's obsession with an image of his past

196229 min7.9 / 10

A haunting, meditative science-fiction poem about memory, time, and the inescapable pull of the past, told through still images and voiceover in a post-nuclear wasteland.

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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