Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)

Directed by

Alain Resnais

Genre

science fiction film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

U

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 100 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man leaves the hospital after a suicide attempt and is recruited for a time travel experiment. He is supposed to relive one minute from a year earlier, but instead he experiences fragments of his past out of order.

melancholiccerebraldisjointedunsettlingslow-burndreamlikereflectiveexperimentalemotional

What happens

Je t'aime, je t'aime ("I Love You, I Love You") is a 1968 French science fiction film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Jacques Sternberg. The plot centres on Claude Ridder (Claude Rich), who is asked to participate in a mysterious experiment in time travel when he leaves the hospital after a suicide attempt. The experiment, intended to return him to the present after reliving one minute from one year earlier, instead causes him to re-experience moments from his past several years in a disjointed fashion. The film was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the countrywide wildcat strike that occurred in May 1968 in France. While seldom ranked among Resnais's best works, Je t'aime, je t'aime has received positive reviews since its release. It has been cited as an influence on the 2004 Michel Gondry film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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