A comedy and film podcast exploring the wonderful world of time travel films in all their multi-dimensional glory. We love the unusual, the lost and the little known, avoiding the more obvious time travel choices. Although the occasional classic might slip through the net.
Every episode, we babble about a film that’s specifically about time travel, or that generally plays with the concept of time.
We get excited about the good bits, poke fun at the bad bits, and radically change the plot if we think it’s possible to improve the film. Sometimes we even get serious, and throw in the odd, ill-informed TED talk. Although we easily get distracted from the facts, and the conversation usually wanders way off topic.
We often end up loving the faulty films, and finding fault with films we love. Time Babble is as fickle as you are! We’re also duty bound by our cultural mandate to end each episode with POETRY, so do listen out for our internationally renowned, Nobel-awarded ‘Haiku or Limerick’ segment.
Lastly, whilst enjoyment is guaranteed, feedback is of course welcome. As long as it’s hastily scrawled on colourful notepaper and sent to our postal address. And doesn’t make us cry. As a wise rabbit once said, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all’.
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A comedy and film podcast exploring the wonderful world of time travel films in all their multi-dimensional glory. We love the unusual, the lost and the little known, avoiding the more obvious time travel choices. Although the occasional classic might slip through the net.
Every episode, we babble about a film that’s specifically about time travel, or that generally plays with the concept of time.
We get excited about the good bits, poke fun at the bad bits, and radically change the plot if we think it’s possible to improve the film. Sometimes we even get serious, and throw in the odd, ill-informed TED talk. Although we easily get distracted from the facts, and the conversation usually wanders way off topic.
We often end up loving the faulty films, and finding fault with films we love. Time Babble is as fickle as you are! We’re also duty bound by our cultural mandate to end each episode with POETRY, so do listen out for our internationally renowned, Nobel-awarded ‘Haiku or Limerick’ segment.
Lastly, whilst enjoyment is guaranteed, feedback is of course welcome. As long as it’s hastily scrawled on colourful notepaper and sent to our postal address. And doesn’t make us cry. As a wise rabbit once said, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all’.
(NB: Anything said by the fools on the podcast inaccurately represents the views of Time Babble)
For updates & further nonsensicals follow us on Instagram.
(All copyrighted material contained within this podcast is the property of their respective rights owners and their use here is protected under ‘fair use’ for the purposes of comment or critique.)
5.2 Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968) "Sniffing for Purpose"
Time Babble
38 minutes
1 month ago
5.2 Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968) "Sniffing for Purpose"
Hello dear Babbler and welcome to our next (or previous?) episode.
This is also, rather excitingly, the first episode recorded live and completely uncut. Gasp! at our grammatical heresies. Swoon! over our incoherently repetitive and rambling digressions. Thrill! at the moment one of us needs to take a ‘Time Babble comfort break’.
This week we bring you Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968) directed by Alain Resnais. Our film is all about Claude (the Riddler) Ridder, who is having a rough time of it. He’s just survived a suicide attempt, so naturally his next logical step is to volunteer for a top-secret time travel experiment run by scientists who have clearly skipped their ethics classes.
‘What is the scientist's plan?’ we hear you cry. Well, the simple plan is to send Claude back in time for exactly one minute to relive a peaceful memory. ‘Ooh exciting!’ we hear you exclaim.
Instead of one minute however, the fleshy time machine malfunctions (shocker), and Claude is stuck in a loop of existential dread, romantic regret and scenes that feel like someone has shuffled a deck of memories and thrown them randomly at the screen, as Claude revisits a greatest hits compilation of his most awkward, melancholic, and confusing moments.
The film’s structure, built from over 200 brief scenes, mirrors the fragmented nature of memory itself. Resnais uses this format to explore the elusive nature of time, making Je t'aime, je t'aime a poetic and cerebral meditation on human consciousness. And there are mice. Obviously there are mice. What crazy experiment doesn’t have mice?
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Time Babble
A comedy and film podcast exploring the wonderful world of time travel films in all their multi-dimensional glory. We love the unusual, the lost and the little known, avoiding the more obvious time travel choices. Although the occasional classic might slip through the net.
Every episode, we babble about a film that’s specifically about time travel, or that generally plays with the concept of time.
We get excited about the good bits, poke fun at the bad bits, and radically change the plot if we think it’s possible to improve the film. Sometimes we even get serious, and throw in the odd, ill-informed TED talk. Although we easily get distracted from the facts, and the conversation usually wanders way off topic.
We often end up loving the faulty films, and finding fault with films we love. Time Babble is as fickle as you are! We’re also duty bound by our cultural mandate to end each episode with POETRY, so do listen out for our internationally renowned, Nobel-awarded ‘Haiku or Limerick’ segment.
Lastly, whilst enjoyment is guaranteed, feedback is of course welcome. As long as it’s hastily scrawled on colourful notepaper and sent to our postal address. And doesn’t make us cry. As a wise rabbit once said, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all’.
(NB: Anything said by the fools on the podcast inaccurately represents the views of Time Babble)
For updates & further nonsensicals follow us on Instagram.
(All copyrighted material contained within this podcast is the property of their respective rights owners and their use here is protected under ‘fair use’ for the purposes of comment or critique.)
