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JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME Screens at The Classic French Film Festival This Saturday
The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on filmmakers from the New Wave), offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME will screen as part of the festival at 6pm Saturday, June 28th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium.
Recovering after a suicide attempt, Claude Ritter (Claude Rich) is obviously the perfect guinea pig for an anonymous corporation’s tentative attempts at time travel. What could go wrong? After all, the mouse came out OK. And maybe, when he goes back a year, he can re-live one particular minute. Resnais’ switch into science fiction continues his theme of time (“Hiroshima Mon Amour,” “Last Year at Marienbad”) as Claude’s memories – thanks to the obligatory unaccounted-for glitch – flip back and forth in time in tiny bits and pieces, returning again and again to a Riviera beach and to a bed-sitter in Glasgow, sometimes in alternate and surreal versions. A major influence on Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Je t’aime, je t’aime” is Resnais’ highly experimental attempt to encompass a life totally via non-linear impressionism.
Calling Resnais’ work “a magnificent film,” the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis writes: “In ‘Je t’aime, je t’aime,’ Claude’s journeys into the past resemble nothing less than memory – fragmented, inconstant, taunting, joyous and heartbreaking. We are, the movie reminds us, what we remember, with a consciousness built from reminiscences that flicker, fade and repeat, flicker, fade and repeat. It’s no wonder that movies enthrall us! Cinema is a time machine, and, as he has long proved, from ‘Last Year at Marienbad’ to ‘Muriel’ and beyond, Mr. Resnais is its ultimate time traveler.”
JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME will screen at 6pm Saturday, June 28th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (Winifred Moore Auditorium in Webster Hall – 470 E Lockwood Ave – Webster Groves, MO 63119)
With an introduction and post-film discussion by Robert Hunt, former film critic for the Riverfront Times and adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University.
Admission: $12 general admission; $10 for students, Cinema St. Louis members, Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) members, and Alliance Française members; Webster U. screenings free for Webster U. students.
A PDF version of the Classic French Film Festival program is available to download HERE:
Check back later in the week here at We Are Movie Geeks for more information about the Classic French Film Festival
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