I love you I love you
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I love you I love you |
| Original title | Je t'aime, je t'aime |
| Country of production | France |
| original language |
French Dutch English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Resnais |
| script | Jacques Sternberg |
| production | Likes Bodard |
| music | Krzysztof Penderecki |
| camera | Jean Boffety |
| cut |
Albert Jurgenson Colette Leloup |
| occupation | |
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I love you, I love you (original title Je t'aime, je t'aime ) is a French science fiction film directed by Alain Resnais from 1968 .
action
The writer Claude is released from a Brussels clinic where he was admitted after attempting suicide. Two men approach him on behalf of an organization that is experimenting with time travel . The first attempts were successful, but so far have only been carried out with laboratory mice. Claude agrees to serve as a human test object. He is locked up in a chamber from which he is to be transposed for a minute to a year ago in his past.
The experiment fails; Claude is constantly jumping back and forth between the present and the past. In non-chronological order he relived the unhappy love for his melancholy friend Catrine. He cheats on her with other women but is unable to part with her. While in Glasgow , Catrine dies of gas poisoning. Claude admits to an acquaintance that he was partly responsible for her death because he deliberately did not help Catrine, and shortly afterwards tries to shoot himself with a revolver. Immediately after the attempted suicide, seriously injured, he finally returns to the present.
background
I love you, I love you started in French cinemas on April 24, 1968 and in German cinemas on September 20 of the same year . The film was invited as a competitor to the Cannes International Film Festival in 1968 , but this was canceled due to the May riots in France . In July 1968 it ran as part of the San Sebastián Film Festival .
Reviews
“One of Resnais' most dynamic studies of time and memory. […] Resnais uses the fiction of a journey through time to experiment with the repetition of scenes and the dissolution of narrative structures. The result comes as close to music as a film can. "
“[Resnais '] story is, insofar as it is recognizable, traceable, banal or even trivial: a fragmentarily communicated, romantic, unreal-real love story [...] But although this film lacks the brilliance, political significance and dramatic topicality of Resnais' earlier films leaves [...] it is ultimately only a variant of the theme that determines the entire work of the great outsider Resnais: the orientation in time and space, the inability of the protagonists to detach themselves from their memories [...], their convulsive attempts to a certain point of fixing an event in the past, and finally their inability to master the present and to face the future consciously. "
“Alain Resnais' film revolves around the connections between time, consciousness and memory and the cinematic structures in which these interactions are suspended. In contrast to earlier Resnais films with a similar theme, this time (as later in Mein Unkel aus Amerika , 1980), ironic nuances are noticeable: an enrichment in the range of expressions of the director, who up to now has hardly known the playful, elegant formulation of his problems. "
Awards
- 1968: Best Actor ( Claude Rich ) at the San Sebastián Film Festival
Web links
- I love you, I love you in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ I love you, I love you in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b I love you, I love you in the dictionary of international films .
- ^ Prize winners of the San Sebastián Film Festival 1968 on the festival website, accessed on September 14, 2012.
- ^ "One of Resnais's most vigorous studies in time and memory. [...] Resnais uses the fiction of a journey by time machine to experiment with the repetition of scenes and the disjuncture of narrative. The result is as close to music as film gets. "- James Monaco: How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia - Language, History, Theory, Oxford University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0195038699 , p. 320 .
- ↑ Quoted from Ronald M. Hahn, Volker Jansen: Lexikon des Science-Fiction-Films. 1500 films from 1902 to today, Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-00731-X , p. 387.