Continuing in the Resnais tradition, it's a somewhat surreal examination of memory, in this case with a time travel premise that has our lead going back to various stages of a previous relationship. The film is filled to the brim with great little moments, and those were more than enough to sustain my interest, but it never seemed to do much with those moments, and by the end I was a little let down by that fact.

Listen: Claude Ridder has come unstuck in time. Okay, so this isn't a DIRECT ripoff of Slaughterhouse 5, but it's close. Resnais again touches on time and memory, as a time travel experiment goes awry and the subject relives moments from a tragic relationship. The scenes become increasingly fragmented, and we begin to question which ones are real and which are altered by the spectre of memory. The concept isn't meaty enough to sustain a whole film, but most of it is sufficiently fascinating.

Suicidal man travels through time in a machine that looks like a giant baked potato. I'm well aware that it's blasphemy to criticize an Alain Resnais film -- he's one of my favorite filmmakers, too -- but this one kind of fails to make it. The same kind of idea was done later and better IMHO in _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_