This seminal film from the era of the French New Wave evokes the contemplative approach to history and time we usually associate with Resnais and Marker. Pollet creates a stunning montage repeating a handful of shots and settings, constantly reorganizing and recontextualizing these images. Humanity becomes mythology in images of ancient ruins and overgrown gardens, a bull facing his adversaries in the ring, a Greek statue of a woman, and a dead woman on a hospital gurney. Jean-Luc Godard wrote, "In this banal series of 16mm images over which breathes the ineffable spirit of 70mm, it is up to us to discover the space which only the cinema can transform into lost time°or rather the contrary°for here are smooth, round shots abandoned on the screen like pebbles on the beach°Then, like a wave, each transition impresses and effaces the word 'memory', the word 'happiness', the word 'woman', the word 'sky'. Death, too, since Pollet, more courageous than Orphée, looks back several times at this Angel Face."