Truly remarkable short made by Chris Marker in 1962
Frankly, it’s very difficult to talk about; montage of stills (one exception), with a narrated narrative
Black and white photos display large grains, with depth, angular framing, and are generally quite low contrast.
The montage of them takes us to the heart of cinema; generally fast movement, almost again pure narrative, with great emphasis on the timing; a few milliseconds more on one, then on another, repetition
Use of the narration as ascribing a story; are we reading too much into images, because of the sound? What does the image tell us? And the sound? The whispering....
Story of the return to memory; at once a chance of emancipation, and a repression. The wish to reneter the past, the personal and the political in that. We see how death is the unhealthy obsession, while at once that return is the only way to live, in this society...
Quite, quite remarkable. Like nothing else. Comparison is futile, but really; how much cinema can even come close?
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