Directed by Alain Resnais • 1968 • France
Starring Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac

Over the course of an extraordinary decade of filmmaking that began with HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, Alain Resnais radically rewired film language’s approach to time. With this foray into the sci-fi genre, he brought that cycle to a close, crafting a fractured love story as sensitive to the texture of memory as it is experimental in its form. After the end of a years-long relationship, the suicidal Claude (Claude Rich) volunteers as a human guinea pig for a time-travel experiment. When the procedure goes haywire, however, Claude is sent spinning through his past, reliving snatches of experience without pattern or continuity. Though unappreciated in its time, JE T’AIME JE T’AIME is one of Resnais’s most searching and beautiful films, a melancholy mosaic that serves as a metaphor for cinema itself.