Cinema & Couch: JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME

JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME

France 1968. Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac. 94 mins. 35mm. OV with German subtitles.

Until December 2019, once a month, DFF will be showing a film on the topic of “Identity” accompanied by a film critical as well as a psychoanalytic commentary.

JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME

As part of a scientific experiment, a young man travels one year into the past and relives the story of an unhappy love. Alain Resnais’ film revolves around the connections between time, consciousness and memory as well as around the cinematic structures in which these interactions are suspended. Similar to Chris Marker’s LA JETÉE, the science fiction and time travel elements serve as the starting point for a tragic and multi-layered exploration of memory.