A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.
I find it tediously pretentious, but there are striking images in it, and it does get across a vague impression of Frankensteinian meddling with the brain.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
fresh:
The soundtrack's texture is similarly sparse, and the fluid montage leads the viewer into the sensation of watching moving images. Until, that is, an extraordinary epiphany when an image genuinely does move.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
One of the best of all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short by the great Chris Marker.