JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS (I LOVE YOU, I DON'T) |
A discussion around coffee and pastries by Coffee Works, follows the screening. In French with English subtitles. Bande Annonce en français REVIEWS At once iconic and transgressive, Gainsbourg's queer-eyed view of Americana is trash of the most beautifully bleak kind. Anton Bitel - Film 4 It's a brilliantly well-made film that will thoroughly entertain fans of arthouse cinema. Although it's not for the faint-hearted. Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall A romance for our time. Time Out New York |
In 1969, Serge Gainsbourg released what would become one of his most famous songs: Je t'aime, moi non plus (“I love you, me neither”), complete with breathy, orgasm-simulation vocal from his then wife, Jane Birkin. Seven years later, in 1976, the music returned, accompanied by a film of the same name. It was Gainsbourg’s feature debut, a love letter to nihilism that was to tackle a whole new taboo: anal sex! Birkin plays gamine truck stop diner waitress Johnny, whose chance encounter with a gay couple, Krassky (Joe Dallesandro) and Padovan (Hugues Quester), leads to a surprising turn of events when Krassky, despite realizing that his first impressions were wrong and Johnny is a girl, decides to spark up a relationship with her anyway. Je t'aime, moi non plus may be misogynistic, deliberately shocking, and iconoclastic, but, like most of Gainsbourg's works, it is also full of poetry. Shown with At the Beach (La Plage) by Keren Ben Rafael Saturday, June 25 - 11:20pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY! |
