La Puppé (2003)

A gentle parody and loving homage to Chris Markers classic 1962 short La Jetée La Puppé is also a tale of loss fate and mans reckless appetite for selfdestructionbut with more jokes Told in a series of starkly lit blackandwhite still photographs La Puppé features a surprisingly nuanced performance from Marty the patriarch of the French New Wave PlushToy movement and the leading inanimate object working in film today