{"id":77186,"date":"2021-10-14T01:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=77186"},"modified":"2024-01-05T20:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T03:33:21","slug":"je-taime-je-taime-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=77186","title":{"rendered":"Je T&#8217;Aime, Je T&#8217;Aime (1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I love confusion &#8212; things that change.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Poster-196x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-77187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Poster-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Poster-670x1024.png 670w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Poster-84x128.png 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Poster-177x270.png 177w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Poster.png 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA suicidal man (Claude Rich) is taken from the hospital to a secret laboratory, where a team of scientists send him back in time to relive a minute of his life &#8212; but instead he&#8217;s caught in a back-and-forth journey between the lab and his memories of loving a woman named Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot), whose death he feels guilty about.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alain Resnais Films<\/li>\n<li>Flashback Films<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Suicide<\/li>\n<li>Time Travel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary lists nearly all of French director Alain Resnais&#8217; pre-1987 feature-length films in his <em>GFTFF<\/em>, from his debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=77210\"><em>Hiroshima Mon Amour<\/em> (1959)<\/a>, to <em>Life Is a Bed of Roses<\/em> (1983) &#8212; but I&#8217;ll start by jumping in with a review of his fifth title. <em>Je T&#8217;Aime, Je T&#8217;Aime<\/em> falls exactly within the paramaters set forth in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alain_Resnais\">Wikipedia&#8217;s description of Resnais&#8217;s work<\/a> as &#8220;frequently explor[ing] the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination&#8221; &#8212; and, given that Resnais was known &#8220;for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives,&#8221; it&#8217;s no surprise that this movie jumps back and forth in both time and genre. It begins as a mystery-filled sci-fi flick (what are these scientists up to &#8212; and why is Rich so willing to go with them to their laboratory?): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway-1024x607.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway-128x76.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway-1536x911.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway-455x270.png 455w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Hallway.png 1721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but eventually shifts towards a non-linear exploration of (Rich&#8217;s) memory, guilt, and sense of reality. Certain random scenes from Rich&#8217;s past are replayed repeatedly (i.e., a snippet of his snorkeling adventures on the beach): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2-1024x612.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2-1024x612.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2-128x76.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2-1536x917.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2-452x270.png 452w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-TAime-Je-TAime-Beach2.png 1713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; while others are merely flashes of conversations or glimpses into his life at work or play:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still-1024x609.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still-128x76.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still-1536x913.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still-454x270.png 454w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still.png 1721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We never fully understand what happened with his lover Catrine, who was clearly depressed: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2-1024x612.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2-1024x612.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2-128x76.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2-1536x918.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2-452x270.png 452w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Still2.png 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or whether Rich will successfully return from his experimental jaunt through time. It seems he&#8217;s stuck in a series of loops &#8212; much like his own obsessive thought-process &#8212; and we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s ultimately in store for him. Your appreciation of this film will depend entirely on your interest in <em>avante garde<\/em> cinema &#8212; i.e., stories more concerned with exploratory impressions and philosophical wonderings than with anything resembling a logical trajectory; though to Resnais&#8217; and co-screenwriter Jacques Sternberg&#8217;s credit, the entire affair does cohere.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A unique storyline and narrative approach<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse-1536x923.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Je-Taime-Je-Taime-Mouse.png 1705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s worth a look for its historical relevance. Listed as a film with Historical Importance in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063152\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/sciencefiction\/je-taime-je-taime-1968.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love confusion &#8212; things that change.&#8221; Synopsis: A suicidal man (Claude Rich) is taken from the hospital to a secret laboratory, where a team of scientists send him back in time to relive a minute of his life &#8212; but instead he&#8217;s caught in a back-and-forth journey between the lab and his memories of loving a woman named Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot), whose death he feels guilty about. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Alain Resnais Films Flashback Films French Films&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=77186\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77186"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94623,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77186\/revisions\/94623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}