Product Details

• Actors: Denise Bellon, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp
• Directors: Chris Marker, Yannick Bellon
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Icarus Films
• DVD Release Date: September 2, 2008
• Run Time: 42 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001BXNB6K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,467 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Remembrance of Things to Come" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bellon & Marker, October 5, 2008

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This review is from: Remembrance of Things to Come (DVD)

Remembrance of Things to Come is a typical Chris Marker film when it is as it should be. Poetic, a flow of images and very re-watchable. This film was made together with Yannick Bellon, daughter of photographer Denise Bellon (1902-1999). The film consists of Bellon's pictures from the midwar period, starting with the surrealist exhibition in Paris 1937. The photos are striking - some macabre (war casualties) and some beautiful. This period seems like a strange land today, but at the same time many things defining our time was concieved then.
The flow of still pictures, the narrator track and the short length (42 minutes) reminds of La Jetee in style, but this is a documentary rather than fiction. As La Jetee and as Sans Soleil, Remembrance of Things to Come is very poetic and easy to watch and listen to, almost hypnotic. If you like Chris Marker's La Jetee and/or La Soleil, you will probably like this.

There is only one narrator track in english (there must have been a french original, as on Criterions La Jetee disc). There is one extra material: a 26 minutes documentary by Bellon from 1950.