La Jetée.Chris Marker.(1963) 1/3

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Directed by Chris Marker (inspiration for Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys) La Jetee's Script pt.1 This is the story of a man, marked by an image from his childhood. The violent scene that upsets him, and whose meaning he was to grasp only years later, happened on the main jetty at Orly, the Paris airport, sometime before the outbreak of World War III. Orly, Sunday. Parents used to take their children there to watch the departing planes. On this particular Sunday, the child whose story we are ...