Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) is Alain Resnais' quiet science-fiction drama, and you can watch online on iFILM. It's a strange, mournful film about a man that time refuses to let go.

After surviving a suicide attempt, Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) agrees to a research experiment. The scientists want to send him exactly one minute into his past, to a day in 1966 — a machine they've only tried on mice. Something fails, and Claude falls loose inside his own memory, replaying fragments in no order at all. One scene keeps pulling him back: a beach, a woman named Catrine, a moment he can neither forget nor relive whole.

Resnais builds the film like a shattered mosaic, each shard lasting only seconds before the next. This isn't an adventure about time travel; it's a study of grief and guilt, told sideways. Best suited to viewers who love slow, authored European cinema and don't mind assembling the picture themselves. Stream Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) online on iFILM.