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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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