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Je t'aime, je t'aime

Screening on Film
Directed by Alain Resnais.
With Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac.
France, 1968, 35mm, color, 91 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: Les Grands Films Classiques

In Resnais’ only science fiction film, a suicidal man is recruited by a team of scientists to test their time machine, which has previously only been tried on mice. A malfunction in the machine traps him in his past, where he is forced to relive fragmentary pieces of his memories in no discernible order. From the disorienting imagery, a narrative revolving around a girlfriend whose death he may or may not have caused gradually emerges. A poetic exploration of the role of destiny, memory and time, Je t’aime explores the instinct of one man to cling to his past even as he watches it dissolve.

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