Charleston County Public Library

La jetée, Sans soleil, Argos-Films

Type
Label
La jetée, Sans soleil, Argos-Films
Language
fre
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
La jetée
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
122942659
Responsibility statement
Argos-Films
Runtime
130
Series statement
Criterion collection, 387
Sub title
Sans soleil
Summary
La jetée: While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past--the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl, and defies orders to return and be with herSans soleil: This film addresses the themes of time, space, and geography. An unknown woman reads letters she has received from Sandor Krasna, a world-traveling freelance cameraman. The epigraphs Marker has chosen illuminate his purpose. The French version is by Racine "L'éloignement de pays répare en quelque sorte la trop grand proximité des temps." This is balanced by this quotation from Eliot in the English version, "Because I know that time is always time / And place is always and only place / And what is actual is actual only for one time / And only for one place."
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Sans soleilSun less
Contributor
Genre
Subject
Content
resource.originPlace
Actor
resource.commentator
Composer
Director
Is Derivative Of
Is Part Of
Producer
Mapped to

Incoming Resources

Outgoing Resources