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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

1968 · 94 min

A haunting, fragmented dive into memory and loss that feels like drifting through someone else's regrets.

Tagline: The past is the present and future in Alain Resnais' new time machine.
Overview: Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
memory
love
guilt
isolation
Places: hospital
countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	6
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, science fiction
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Written by: Jacques Sternberg
Starring: Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac, Van Doude, Claire Duhamel, Bernard Fresson, Irène Tunc, Carla Marlier
Music: Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean-Claude Pelletier
Cinematography: Jean Boffety
Runtime: 94 min
Country: France
Languages: Dutch, English, French

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