included · Consciousness transfer

La Jetée

Chris Marker · 29 minutes

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Romance, Science Fiction, Drama

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Consciousness transfer.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Experiments across past and future culminate in the protagonist witnessing the death already embedded in his childhood memory.

A postwar experiment projects a prisoner's consciousness across time; his childhood memory resolves into his own future death.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan116.0

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance10/10

high confidence

Quality consensus8.2/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 115.97 base × 100.0% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

4 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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