Chris Marker’s classic science fiction short, La Jetée, stands out from all other movies because, in fact, it is barely a movie at all, for the story of a post-apocalyptic band of subterranean Parisian scientists who experiment with time travel by sending a young man back in time to attempt to forestall the disaster is told through a series of hauntingly lovely, and sometimes deeply disturbing stills. In the past, the young man meets a lovely, quiet, thoughtful young woman whom he squires around what for him is a miraculously restored Paris, and they fall in love. We are meant to fall in love with the couple, too, and to share the poignancy of their romance—a romance symbolized by a single moment which justifies, in more than one sense, the title “moving picture.” The moody half-hour story features a narrator, odd whispers, a vision, and an astonishingly sad twist ending—in order to understand my title, you must see this film.