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I Love You, I Love You

Original title: Je t'aime, je t'aime
  • 19681968
  • 1h 31m
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7.2/10
2.9K
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I Love You, I Love You (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.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.9K
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    • Alain Resnais
    • Jacques Sternberg
    • Alain Resnais(collaborating writer)
  • Stars
    • Claude Rich
    • Olga Georges-Picot
    • Anouk Ferjac
    • Alain Resnais
    • Jacques Sternberg
    • Alain Resnais(collaborating writer)
  • Stars
    • Claude Rich
    • Olga Georges-Picot
    • Anouk Ferjac
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    • 18User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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    Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Carla Marlier and Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Olga Georges-Picot and Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Olga Georges-Picot and Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Olga Georges-Picot and Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Olga Georges-Picot and Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Olga Georges-Picot and Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)
    Carla Marlier and Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You (1968)

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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
    • Agnès de Smet - la jeune femme qui sait dire non
      • Alain Resnais
      • Jacques Sternberg
      • Alain Resnais(collaborating writer) (uncredited)
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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?

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    6/10
    The dangers of time
    A man (Claude Rich) is selected by a group of scientists to participate in a new experiment that involves time travel. It seemed to have worked with laboratory rats but since those can't speak they need to test with a human, in this case a man who is recovering from a failed suicide attempt after the death of his lover. As the researches claim, he's a perfect choice because he has nothing to lose. The tragic "guinea pig" thinks the same and joins the test, confining himself into a strange machine that goes back in time, although very jumpy, going back and forth without any logic, replaying facts of the man's life before his suicidal act. Most of the flashbacks revolve around the time spent with the woman he loved, good moments turned into painful memories to the subject trapped in the machine, who wakes up from time to time due to the project's malfunctions.

    Alain Resnais devotes his time here in presenting who the main character was instead of focusing in the utility of a time travel projects, which reveals to be quite empty since it's very risky, actions can't be altered, everything is doubtful and flawed. It deconstructs the character through random flashbacks, completely out of order and very repetitive, almost like waking up every morning in "Groundhog Day" (instead of punching the clock alarm, the recurring scene is a happier moment of the man coming out of the sea talking about the fishes he saw there, a tender moment with his lover). Sometimes it goes forward when it's time to explain what truly happened with his woman, by the time everything gets deeply confusing and a little more frightening.

    This movie's concept is great, but there isn't much gain when you don't have answers to some questions, and above all it's lack of a true purpose makes of "Je'Taime, Je'Taime" ("I Love You, I Love You") something remotely interesting, difficult to endure and more off than on. I loved the fact of this being a sci-fi movie that doesn't circulates with scientifical mambo jambo, it's more humanistic in this aspect. But in the real human level it's very brainy, exquisite, lacking in heart, passion and exceeding in small talks and distractive actions. I didn't fell anything for the couple, the fragments of what they had in common wasn't enough for me to develop any kind of feeling for them; the man, on the other hand, was a brilliant and tragic character with genuine emotions, slightly uncertain why he went ahead in joining the test, enjoying in revive the life he had but at the same time hating the awkward experience of not seeing things as they were, with clarity - the machine, the drugs taken interfere in everything, causing him some pain. We ask ourselves if we would do something like that.

    Technically fascinating with its unusual editing (for the time) but a little dead inside, this is a nice film that surely leaves you thinking but not much loving and dreaming and wanting more. Would benefit of an American remake, but too bad some would see it as a clone of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". 6/10
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    • Jun 25, 2013

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      • April 24, 1968 (France)
      • France
      • French
      • Dutch
      • English
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      • Avenue Jules Malou, Etterbeek, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
    • Production companies
      • Les Productions Fox Europa
      • Parc Film
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
      • Mono

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