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La jetee : cine-roman

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This book takes the film shot by shot giving you clear images that you can't see on the vhs copies in release. This is the best way of taking a close look at the film that has inspired so many filmmakers over the years.

This is a beautiful reprinting of the still images that make up the film La Jetée. It also contains the English and French scripts in accompaniment. Unlike all the versions of the movie that I've seen, these images are clear and not washed out. Looking at the images in a book also allows you to really see the details and to pick out more information than watching the film.

If I had a complaint, it's that sometimes instead of printing a full page image, the authors (editors?) would to put multiple small images on a page. Sometimes it's used to good effect (showing "movement" buy letting you see a sequence all at once) and sometimes it just makes you squint.

Image and emotion move as you turn the pages. Marker's images are extraordianry in their power to evoke so much humanity in each still.

I first saw this in college about five years ago. It was in an art class where we were discussing time. This was before 12 monkeys came out and people had never seen a film of such complexity (at least in Hollywood). Each still was posted on the screen and a movie was created in your mind. Thinking back I thought I had seen a full movie when really I only saw a few stills. It was amazing. I highly recommend this book to those who loved 12 monkeys for it's artsy complexity and I also recommend it to those who hate mainstream movies and love solely art films. The reason I liken this book to film is because after reading this book you feel like you just watched a movie like Brazil or The City of Lost Children!