Resnais's brightest and bleakest film. I Love You, I Love You: the title promises naive romantic fervor, but the repetition proves ominous. A failed suicide agrees to become a guinea pig for scientists exploring time travel and is caught, not just in a given moment, but in an infinite variety of given moments, all variations on one another. And time's winged chariot will never come to his rescue. It's a science fiction tragedy in comic strip images. Resnais is obsessed with time, and perhaps with a profoundly Marxist sense of history as the nightmare from which man is trying to awaken. Ironically enough, Je t'aime was a good ten years before its time. People weren't then ready for this quiet mixture of science fiction with a love story as subtle as anything in Rohmer or Rivette. But with Chris Marker's La jetée and Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris it is part of a holy trinity of meditations on the horrors of eternal life.