ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

framptonhollis Legendary documentary filmmaker Chris Marker's most famous and praised work is not a documentary in the slightest; instead, it is "La Jetee", a powerful philosophical sci-fi drama clocking in at just 28 minutes and composed almost entirely of still photographs. Featuring mind bending concepts, tragic outcomes, iconic visuals, and a thought provoking narration, these photographs come together to create an experience comprised of melancholic beauty. Tears flowing down your cheeks, a chill creeping up your spine; get used to these feeling while watching "La Jetee" because you may start to feel them a lot!While engaged in this brilliant avant garde experience, the audience is cast away into a post apocalypse made up of depression, confusion, curiosity, and advanced experimental technology. This film presents a quest made up of romance, drama, and futuristic tech, but it contains NONE of the cliché traits one could expect from said genres. Instead, it is an atmospheric mood piece that lights up the screen with its originality and original style. It is all the better for its radical experimentation of the cinematic platform, twisting of audience expectation, and subversion of genre tropes. I hesitate to even label this as merely a science fiction film or a drama or a love story, because it really is not a film that wants to be categorized; instead, it wants to be explored and absorbed. This film is not some cool, futuristic sci-fi flick, instead it is a work of poetry, philosophy, feeling, sensuality, tragedy, and mystery. It is a cold, dense, and jaw dropping work of unstoppable genius.

Hitchcoc This is a haunting 28 minutes. The world has just been through World War III and nuclear weapons have doomed everyone. This takes place in Paris and the city is rubble. Winners and losers (actually all losers) are living underground. The scientists are using the others as Guinea pigs to try to figure out a way to travel back in time and correct the mistakes. One young man is a prime choice to do the job. As his memory is probed he goes back to a moment on a pier (La Jetee) where he tried to see a woman with whom he had fallen in love. He creates a narrative in his mind. What it does is create a kind of loop that will probably prove unproductive. It's probably like the people that will be left after it is too late at some future time, especially if they were complicit in the destruction, desperately trying to come up with a last straw to grasp. What we have, however, is one more shot of cruelty toward the people already victimized. I hope I'm wrong, but I kind of see the whole climate thing and the ozone layer being our World War III. That aside, this picture shows us some of the beauty that was there before the arrogance of some would eventuate our demise and with it the love and kindness that is really what the human condition should be about. I haven't even mentioned how incredibly creative this film is, using black and white still photographs to tell the story. Images of joy and pain and resilience.

joesuf What can I say? Its the best. Consisting mainly of stills. With one simple motion of the eyes from a solitary woman the woman of his dreams... reality. Science fiction, romance, whatever... its the best. From Sight and Sound: "We've saved the shortest and sweetest for last. Not only does Chris Marker's twenty-eight-minute La Jetée have the briefest running time of any film in the Sight & Sound top fifty, it's also certainly the only one made up almost exclusively of still photographs. Yet so much emotional and visual power is packed into Marker's singular work of postapocalyptic science fiction that its inclusion on a list like this is compulsory. The eerily beautiful time-travel tale is set in the tunnels under Paris after a third World War has ravaged the city, though it occasionally flashes back to a brighter past, where a government guinea pig is sent to collect data that might help save the world. Once there, the man, already obsessed with an obscure, romantic memory from his personal past—of a mystery woman watching him from an airport jetty—discovers his own tragic fate."

AbhiMathews It's the moments we live through that define us. We may try to run away from our fears and put our pasts behind us to an extent, but we cannot evade the inevitable. La Jetée reveals life shortly before a World War that leaves the world in ruins. We see how society and the ways of life transform over the course of time yet how memories and actions remain constant in people. It's often difficult for us to truly comprehend the impact all our experiences, relationships and thoughts have on our futures. It's even more bewildering how passions like love and happiness can be sustained even after calamitous events. This film is told primarily through still images, and captures particularly distinct memories of a man who vividly remembers the day he once saw another man die at an airport before the war while he was a young boy. It's a moment that sticks with him throughout his life and one that he cannot simply forget. Beautifully, this movie demonstrates that time is but a figment of the mind and that the world depicted in our minds is not as absolute as we may think.