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Je t'aime, je t'aime

  • 1968
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  • 1h 34m
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7.1/10
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Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
DramaSci-Fi

After attempting suicide, Claude is recruited for a time travel experiment, but, when the machine goes haywire, he may be trapped hurtling through his memories.After attempting suicide, Claude is recruited for a time travel experiment, but, when the machine goes haywire, he may be trapped hurtling through his memories.After attempting suicide, Claude is recruited for a time travel experiment, but, when the machine goes haywire, he may be trapped hurtling through his memories.

  • Director
    • Alain Resnais
  • Writers
    • Jacques Sternberg
    • Alain Resnais
  • Stars
    • Claude Rich
    • Olga Georges-Picot
    • Anouk Ferjac
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    3.5K
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    • Director
      • Alain Resnais
    • Writers
      • Jacques Sternberg
      • Alain Resnais
    • Stars
      • Claude Rich
      • Olga Georges-Picot
      • Anouk Ferjac
    • 21User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins total

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    Claude Rich
    Claude Rich
    • Claude Ridder
    Olga Georges-Picot
    Olga Georges-Picot
    • Catrine
    Anouk Ferjac
    Anouk Ferjac
    • Wiana Lust
    Alain MacMoy
    Alain MacMoy
    • Le technicien qui vient chercher Ridder
    Vania Vilers
    Vania Vilers
    • Le technicien-chauffeur
    Ray Verhaeghe
    • Le technicien aux souris
    Van Doude
    Van Doude
    • Jan Rouffer - le chef du centre de recherches de Crespel
    Yves Kerboul
    Yves Kerboul
    • Le technicien au tableau noir
    Dominique Rozan
    Dominique Rozan
    • Le médecin de Crespel…
    Annie Bertin
    • Hélène Wirtz - la jeune femme à la trompette
    Jean Michaud
    • Le directeur de la maison de diffusion
    Claire Duhamel
    • Jane Swolfs
    Bernard Fresson
    Bernard Fresson
    • Bernard Hannecart
    Sylvain Dhomme
    • L'homme qui invite Ridder à dîner
    Irène Tunc
    Irène Tunc
    • Marcelle Hannecart
    Alan Adair
    • Un inspecteur de police à Glasgow
    • (as Allan Adair)
    Gérard Lorin
    • Le dentiste
    Annie Fargue
    Annie Fargue
    • Agnès de Smet - la jeune femme qui sait dire non
    • Director
      • Alain Resnais
    • Writers
      • Jacques Sternberg
      • Alain Resnais
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    5cherold

    a pointless experiment in non-narrative filmmaking

    This is not a sci-fi movie in the normal sense of the word. It does not explore futuristic concepts or alien ways of thought. The sci-fi premise is nothing but a framework for a movie interested in seeing what happens if a movie is told entirely at random in little bits and pieces.

    After establishing a few science rules, the protagonist is plopped into a brain-shaped tent so he can travel back in time and relive a single minute from a year ago. But once in the past he finds himself jumping from memory to memory. Some memories are a few seconds, some might last a minute. Some connect, some seem to be random.

    Many of the moments center around a depressed woman, and the movie is an exploration of her, and him, and whatever surrounds that. There are also moments that are just odd, like an unexplained guy in a Halloween mask.

    Unfortunately, none of this is all that interesting. The lead character is a lump and his women seem interchangeable. (For me that is literally the case; I have faceblindness and could not figure out which woman was in which scene, which means this movie was harder for me to follow than it would be for someone who didn't have issues recognizing faces).

    The look is as bland as the characters, and the whole thing feels more like an intellectual exercise than a genuine attempt to say something about anything.
    7kurtralske

    Memories 1, Man 0

    The protagonist of Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime, Claude Ridder, spends the majority of the film adrift in time, randomly surfacing at various moments from a tragic love relationship. The viewer enjoys being flung forwards and backwards in time, to piece together the story...or, not.

    The plot owes a huge debt to Chris Marker's far superior La Jetee, in which time-travel, love, and self-knowledge form a closed loop. Je T'Aime, despite its fractured chronology, is in fact more akin to a conventional tragic love story.

    Director Renais was born in 1922, making him 46 in 1968 at the time this film was made. I think this is visible: Renais was perhaps too old to really feel and understand the 60s and its anarchic energy. While the film's time machine looks borrowed from "Barbarella", and the time-fracturing sometimes has a psychedelic quality, Renais' world-view is that of a man of the 1950s. (The hero is a WW2 veteran, firmly locating him in an earlier era.) The film is about existential dread, the weight of history, damaged and intractable male subjectivity. Meanwhile in Paris, in May '68, young people were rising up and discovering new forms of life.

    The major flaws of the film are Claude Rich's unsympathetic performance as the protagonist, and a script that somehow leaves the love relationship feeling flat.

    An interesting thought experiment: if the lead actor had been someone more appealing -- say, Alain Delon, instead of the somewhat weedy and overwrought Claude Rich -- would Je T'Aime be now regarded as a masterpiece? Quite possibly, yes.

    For fans of Renais, worth seeking out. Otherwise, treat viewing Je T'aime as an experiment...from which you may or may not return.
    8adrean-819-339098

    Back to the future (resnais style)

    After having seen three films of Alain Resnais over the past few years 'Last year at Marienbad, 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' and 'Mon Oncle d'Amerique' I think he is a director well worth the effort to learn a little more about.

    Resnais plays with time here and films directly what happens in the conscious of the protagonist. Impossible to place in time and place a linear narrative from the short fragmatic bursts of scenes. Eventually these scenes, disposed and diced, give the mesh or framework leading to his eventual suicide attempt. To make things more confusing it is possible that some scenes are in fact his fantasies and he didn't live them at all.

    I like very much films that deal with time and space when handled by great directors. You leave the cinema often slightly confused as you are thrown back into reality. The film calls for a lot of reflection.
    7jamesrupert2014

    Cryptic relationship drama featuring a man 'unstuck in time'*

    After a failed suicide, a young man (Claude Ridder, played by Claude Rich) is recruited as a volunteer in a time travel experiment that appears to leave him temporally disconnected and re-experiencing moments from his past. While clearly a 'science fiction' movie (the actual time machine is an odd organic tent-like structure with a form fitting couch from which the subject disappears and reappears), the time travel element serves only as a biographical framing device as Ridder flicks back and forth in his personal history and the story of his troubled love for depressed Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot) and the events leading to her death and his subsequent suicide attempt unwind in an non-linear, and sometimes repetitive, fashion. Helmed by French New Wave director Alain Resnais, the film has some odd flourishes (in one memory, Ridder is met by a man in formal dress and a 'gill-man' face (mask?)). The film never makes clear whether Ridder is physically in the past as an observer or is revisiting the past by occupying his own body. The mouse that he shares the time machine with does appear occasionally, but no explanation is offered. I am not sure if Claude and Olga's relationship would have been that interesting without the time-travel framework, but perhaps if I had been more attentive to details, I would have found the story less disjointed and more engaging. Interesting more than entertaining, the film is an interesting entry in the limited body of 1960's French Science fiction cinema but anyone expecting another 'Barberella' (1968) will be greatly disappointed. * to borrow Kurt Vonnegut's expression
    10Ethan_Ford

    neglected Resnais masterpiece

    After the political theme of "La guerre est finie",Resnais returns to his familiar subject,time,in all its complexity in this film which is almost as opaque as "Marienbad" or as unsettling as "Muriel".Ridder {Claude Rich,an actor whom Resnais used many times over the years}is a publisher whose girlfriend is accidentally killed and who feels in some way responsible for her death.After listening to a recording by Thelonius Monk,he unsuccessfully attempts suicide after which he has a lengthy recuperation in a hospital .When he leaves,two doctors who have a constructed a time machine ask if he would like to participate in their experiments. Having nothing to lose,he readily agrees and enters the bizarre contraption along with a white mouse,although unlike the fly in Cronenberg's film there is thankfully no genetic mutation involved. He does not travel forward in time,however,but back ,precisely one year to a beach in Brittany.The experiment is supposed to last for a minute but something goes wrong and he is trapped in the machine.Now he experiences a host of memories brought sharply back to life,some important,others banal,in a kaleidoscope of sharply edited images which brings to mind the montages of "Muriel".The theme is reminiscent of many films from "La Jetée" to "The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" and this rarely seen film is definitely one of the most important of Resnais' career.

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      Claude Ridder: Catherine. Catherine... I love you. Do you hear me? I love you. It was the only reason. Long before you die. And now I'm dead. I'm cold. I hear my words. It's the drug... How likely I'll survive? Oh yeah, 100% if I were a rat. Then I'm a rat, because I'm alive. Now see... anyway still have to wait four minutes. And the rat? Where is the rat?

    • Connections
      Featured in Paradis: Je m'ennuie (2012)
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      Misterioso
      by Thelonious Monk

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    • Release date
      • April 24, 1968 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Languages
      • French
      • Dutch
      • English
    • Also known as
      • I Love You, I Love You
    • Filming locations
      • Avenue Jules Malou, Etterbeek, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium(Ridder getting out of the hospital)
    • Production companies
      • Les Productions Fox Europa
      • Parc Film
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $71,717
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $12,869
      • Feb 16, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $80,393
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 34m(94 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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