La Jetée, Chris Marker / El año pasado en Marienbad, Alain Resnais

La Jetée, Chris Marker, France, 1962, 28’ 

Experimental story about the power of memory, told exclusively through still photographs, in which a man tries to reconstruct the memory of his beloved, in times of the Third World War. A unique French sci-fi film that inspired the well-known American film ‘12 Monkeys’ (Terry Gilliam, 1995).

After an apocalyptic nuclear war, the world is devastated. A group of scientists on the winning side come to the conclusion that the only way to save humanity is to resort to time travel: either to send a person back in time to ask for help, or to the future to find a solution to the present situation. The one chosen to make the journey through time is a prisoner. 

El año pasado en Marienbad, Alain Resnais, France, 1961, 94’

In a baroque hotel, a stranger, X, tries to persuade a married woman, A, to leave her husband, M, and run away with him. He bases this on a promise she made to him when they met the previous year in Marienbad, but the woman does not seem to remember that meeting. (FILMAFFINITY)