FREE Sci-Fi Film Screening

La Jetée (The Pier)

Saturday 13 September 2008 at 2.00pm in the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff.  CF24 4AG (next to the Sherman Theatre). 

We will be showing the French sci-fi classic La Jetée as part of the Open Day. The 1962 film meaning The Jetty/The Pier concerns the survivors of a destroyed Paris in the aftermath of World War III who live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries. 

They research time travel, hoping to send someone back before the devastating war to recover food, medicine, or energy for the present, to summon the past and future to the aid of the present.  

This film directed by Chris Marker became the inspiration for the film 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995), which adapted its premise to suit a 129-minute movie with high-profile stars (Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe) and a 29 million dollar budget. 

La Jetée is less than 30 minutes long.  After the screening Dr Ian Spring will introduce the interesting and varied media studies programme offered by Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning this year.