"The victors stood guard over a kingdom of rats."
Experimental, avant-garde depiction of post-apocalyptic time travel told through a series of stills in slide-show progression. As odd as that sounds, the whole thing works very, very well.
Davos Hanich,
Etienne Becker,
Hélène Chatelain,
Jacques Branchu,
Jacques Ledoux
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Earth lies in ruin after a nuclear war. The few surviving humans begin researching time travel, hoping to send someone back to the pre-war world for food, supplies and maybe a solution to their dire p...( read more
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Flixster Reviews (616)
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December 31, 2009
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October 1, 2009
I think being a big fan of photography helped me in enjoying this film as much as i did but to be honest, i did loose a little of my concentration before the film was over. That said, this film is a visual treat with a surreal dreamlike story that is both original and thought pro...( read more)
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May 31, 2009
I think most people know this short has been credited as a strong influence in movies such as "12 Monkeys" (a remake) and "Terminator". Ostensibly this is a fascinating slide show, with a couple of seconds of motion in the middle. The film has left me with indelible images, but I...( read more)
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March 24, 2008
Quick Review:
One of the most influential (whether you or the filmmakers its inspired have ever even seen it) sci-fi films ever made.
An amazing achievement of sight and sound. The film is comprised entirely of still images, but what is cinema if not just still images 2...( read more) -
January 25, 2010
An extraordinary experimental short French movie with a story light years ahead of it's time. It uses a series of black and white still photographs with a narrator telling us the tale of a man sent back in time after a nuclear war has devastated France. He volunteers to be used a...( read more)
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June 16, 2009
Oh, you have to watch this. Track it down and give yourself the pleasure of some fine sci-fi. You deserve it.
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January 2, 2008There is indeed a difference between this movie and 12 Monkeys... 12 Monkeys is "inspired by La Jetée". Now inspired is too weak a word, there would be no 12 Monkeys without this movie. Period.
Now I understand why calling it the "original 12 Monkeys" would startle you, but then again, how else do you want to call it? Its not because 12 monkeys is 4 times longer than this that its not directly inspired by it. Its not because la Jetée is a "photo-novel" that the live action 12 Monkeys isn't the remake.
But I loved 12 Monkeys, astonishingly they "remade" La Jetée extraordinarly well. -
May 15, 2007People need to stop calling this the "original 12 monkeys". That's like calling Yojimbo the original A Fistful of Dollars. There's a huge difference,please.
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