Je t’aime moi non plus (1976) (Blu-ray, Streaming, BOD)

Johnny är en späd, pojkaktig servitris som arbetar på en diner och längtar efter kärlek. Hon blir förälskad i den homosexuella sophämtaren Krassky, som attraheras av hennes pojkaktiga utseende. Redan ett okonventionellt förhållande kompliceras det ytterligare av deras oförmåga att fullborda det.

—
”Don’t bother going to see my film, see Gainsbourg’s. That is a work of art.”
– Francois Truffaut

”Gainsbourg, like Prince after him, came from music to filmmaking with a strong cinematic sense…he doesn’t put a foot wrong. [The film is] genuinely, eccentrically Gainsbourgian.”
– Glenn Kenny, The New York Times

”Whereas the original Gainsbourg-Birkin song is full of breathy, orgasmic wordplay, Je T’Aime…the film is breathtakingly wordless at times, as Birkin’s boyish, sexually desperate snack bar owner and Dallesandro’s brutish gay garbage truck driver(!) navigate one of the most rocky and blackly humorous relationships in all of French cinema. It’s intellectually explicit, beautifully offensive, full of summer, trash and ass – an absolute must-see.”
– Tillage Arts

”One crazy film and even after forty years, it retains the power to leave even the most jaded of moviegoers startled by the on-screen goings-on”
– Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com

”At once iconic and transgressive, Gainsbourg’s queer-eyed view of Americana is trash of the most beautifully bleak kind.”
– Film4

”A true WTF?! experience. Now that you can find Je T’Aime, it is duly worth a look, at least for fans of bizarre cinematic curios.”
– 48Hills

”One of the most powerful and stripped down messages about the gay experience that the Western world would see for a couple decades. All three of the leads are fantastic and the sets, costumes and photography are as real as it gets. Check out this tasteless, and timeless, work of weapons grade angst and judge for yourself.”
– Ron Wilkinson, It’s Just Movies

”It’s another fitting example of what made Serge Gainsbourg such a unique and, yes, controversial talent.”
– Lee Jutton, Film Inquiry

—