To replenish its decreasing stocks of food, medicine and energies, and in doing so, resulting in a perpetual memory of a lone female, life, death and past events that are recreated on an airport jetty. Apparently. It lost me!
Critics speak very highly of it, but this (apparently shallow) viewer found it all a bit of a bore, thankful it was only 28-minutes long in the end.
Lots of atmosphere sits behind the haunting music and narrator's tone, leading us through what the photos on rotation mean and what the story is about. Some, like me, it seems, found it hard to grasp. Anti-war science fiction and/or documentary kind of thing. Be interesting to see what other might think. It was apparently the driving influence for Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) which I did watch back in the day, but can't remember much about.
The reason this caught my eye however was because there's also 2073 (2024) doing the rounds which also nods heavily to this work, too. In 2073 the setting is New San Francisco and the scorched-earth, tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
La Jetée is available to watch on YouTube if anyone fancies it - I'll link to it in the first comment. Or you can pay AppleTV £3.49 to watch it - because they need your money!
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