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Criterion spine #387

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

1962Directed by Chris Marker

This release pairs the two best-known films of French essayist-filmmaker Chris Marker. La Jetee is a short, haunting science-fiction work told almost entirely in still photographs, depicting a post-apocalyptic time-travel experiment built around a man's fixation on a single remembered image.…

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