TWELVE MONKEYS
An Ambitious and amazing feature-length re-imagining of the classic short subject "La Jetee."
Reviewed by Steve Biodrowski
This is feature-length remake of LA JETEE, the short-subject masterpiece by Chris Marker that portrayed time travel as a kind of moebius strips folding back on itself. The original short was a remarkable piece of filmmaking with a style inextricably linked to its content. Perhaps LA JETEE’s auteur, Christ Marker, was simply using techniques from his documentary background (the story is told in a series of still frames, with a voice-over narrating the events); however, those frozen moments of time cannot help but enhance a story about the nature of time and returning to specific moments over and over again.
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