La Jetée (1962)

La Jetée is a science-fiction film in black and white (featurette) made out mostly of still images. It shares the story of post-war experiments with time-travel, and it's one of the movies that's inspired the cult film "12 Monkeys".

An image from the room where the inmates are being experimented on

The movie is set in Paris, France and explains how a nuclear war erupted, and for the people to survive they went living underground. Scientists research time travel and the inmates are used as guinea pigs. You can read the plot here, as we're moving to a more technical review style now.

The story moved accordingly, and somewhere the English voice-over was bad and I couldn't understand some things. Happily those moments were very rare, just like the scientists whispering on German (at least it sounded like that). 
The shots are absolutely amazing when underground, giving the whole movie a special atmosphere that can be described as post-apocalyptic with a glance of psychological thriller feeling.

The sound effects were also very good, and the ambient created by the pictures and the music was great, something that I haven't heard on any other movie before. The narrator was calm and was just reading, but this was blended in a good way with the movie.

The feeling that it gave me after watching wasn't as strong as "12 Monkeys", but maybe that's because from my perspective it failed at the pre-war period showing regular images that sometimes didn't even make sense. Nevertheless; La Jetée is a classic and will remain in my memories like a good movie. I'm still new to this "still photos" thing, but the story is amazing and touching. One of the most beautiful and deep post-apocalyptic science-fiction stories I've ever experienced.

8/10