- From Resnais’s sci-fi romance Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime (1968)
I’ve read that André Breton and his surrealist compatriots would sometimes spend the evening going from one movie theater to another. They’d show up to a film after it had started, stay until they could figure out the plot, then leave so they could repeat the process with another film. This game was consistent with the surrealists’ mission of locating the nonsensical within the everyday and divining a hidden logic within the nonsensical.
Ben Sachs writes about moviegoing every Monday.
