This is not a sci-fi movie in the normal sense of the word. It does not explore futuristic concepts or alien ways of thought. The sci-fi premise is nothing but a framework for a movie interested in seeing what happens if a movie is told entirely at random in little bits and pieces.

After establishing a few science rules, the protagonist is plopped into a brain-shaped tent so he can travel back in time and relive a single minute from a year ago. But once in the past he finds himself jumping from memory to memory. Some memories are a few seconds, some might last a minute. Some connect, some seem to be random.

Many of the moments center around a depressed woman, and the movie is an exploration of her, and him, and whatever surrounds that. There are also moments that are just odd, like an unexplained guy in a Halloween mask.

Unfortunately, none of this is all that interesting. The lead character is a lump and his women seem interchangeable. (For me that is literally the case; I have faceblindness and could not figure out which woman was in which scene, which means this movie was harder for me to follow than it would be for someone who didn't have issues recognizing faces).

The look is as bland as the characters, and the whole thing feels more like an intellectual exercise than a genuine attempt to say something about anything.

I pick up this Cult movie with utter auspice, a time travel to one year before to present day, the beginning was really well-crafted on choice of a specific human being Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) lonely and without family, hand-picked due he had committed suicide and recovering at hospital, also the scientist reckon on his behalf his odd past background and his scorn to your own life as well, he is invited to be the first human traveller for a French hidden experience on time travel, on the underground complex Claude comes across an obsolete system connected with a bizarre fiber-glass time-travel capsule, untill here although an amateur project, he was sent one year before to his past life together with a mice, now starts the matter, arriving in the there he stays adrift, on a series of recollections on several places and time, nothing makes sense at all, living in an endless dystopia existence, worst with a nonpareil surrealism, plus the shallow dialogues, meaningless phrases plays a role to downgrade an already annoying offer, if the main character committed suicide, the depressed viewers can do the same during the movie, aside it takes just 90 minutes, it seems a never ending hours of distress and anxiety, taking a look at bonus material has an interview with the writer Sternberg, it was enough to understand a faulty screenplay, he is atheist and believes on nothing after death, that's explained such madness and immateriality in overflow, a movie for a unique experience, never I'll suffer to see such foolishness gathered in one movie itself, it is allowed to those who need pay sins from the past, as kicked dogs on streets, threw stones on the Christ's cross, stolen candy of children, beaten in his mother and go on!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6

In a Parisien hospital, Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) recovers from an attempted suicide and is invited to join an experiment of time travel by an agency. He learns that they have succeeded with mice and now they need to use a human to prove their theory is a risky experiment. Claude accepts to participate and while in his fragmented journey, the viewer learns why the tried to commit suicide.

"Je t'aime, Je t'aime" is a French Sci-fi directed by Alain Resnais based on a story by Jacques Sternberg. The plot, using fragmented flashbacks, is certainly cult for those who had the chance to watch this film in 1968. However, in 2021, it is dated and boring. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Eu te Amo, Eu te Amo" ("I LoveYou, I LoveYou")