Je t'aime moi non plus (film)

For the song, see Je t'aime... moi non plus. For the album, see Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg.

Je t'aime moi non plus
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Serge Gainsbourg
Written by	Serge Gainsbourg
Produced by	Claude Berri Jacques-Eric Strauss
Starring	Jane Birkin Joe Dallesandro Hugues Quester Liliane Rovère Gérard Depardieu
Cinematography	Willy Kurant
Edited by	Kenout Peltier
Music by	Serge Gainsbourg
Distributed by	AMLF (1976) (France)
Release date	10 March 1976 (1976-03-10)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Je t'aime moi non plus (English title: I Love You, I Don't) is a 1976 feature film written, directed, and scored by Serge Gainsbourg, starring Jane Birkin, Hugues Quester and Joe Dallesandro, and featuring a cameo by Gérard Depardieu.

Plot[]

A frail and love-starved young woman, Johnny (Jane Birkin), works in a truckstop café in the middle of nowhere. One day enter two gay truckers, manly and worldwise Krassky (Joe Dallesandro) and his lover Padovan (Hugues Quester), young and handsome, but immature and rather a handful.

Krassky, tired of taking care of Padovan who keeps getting into trouble, discovers in himself an attraction for this boyish girl, and she falls head over heels for him. They start a relationship; and even if at first Krassky's body hesitates before the meager feminine graces of curveless Johnny^{[original research?]}, he ends up being charmed by her naïve and unconditional love.

She is ready to accept anything out of love for him, including anal sex, though quite inexperienced at this, so that her screams of pain cause them to be thrown out of several motels. In the end, the back of Krassky's dirty garbage truck will be the theatre of their union.

Furiously jealous, Padovan tries to kill Johnny by suffocating her. Krassky intervenes and saves Johnny, but does it so idly that Johnny gets enraged and furiously insults him. Krassky then returns to his first love and leaves with him, abandoning Johnny in her café, brokenhearted and lonely again.

Cast[]

• Jane Birkin as Johnny
• Joe Dallesandro as Krassky
• Hugues Quester as Padovan
• Reinhard Kolldehoff as Boris
• Gérard Depardieu as The peasant
• Jimmy Davis as Moïse
• Maïté Nahyr as The prostitute
• Liliane Rovère as The motel client
• Michel Blanc as A worker
• Claudia Butenuth as The customer

Motives[]

Je t'aime moi non plus was the first film directed by Gainsbourg.^[1] Jane Birkin was his partner at that time.^[2] It includes elements of symbolism recurrent in Gainsbourg's work: passion to the death and uncensored eroticism.^{[citation needed]} Depardieu has a few short appearances, playing a passing cynical gay local.

References[]

External links[]

• Je t'aime moi non plus at IMDb
• Sargent, Jack (January 2004). "Hot, Hard Cocks and Tight, Tight Unlubricated Assholes: Transgression, Sexual Ambiguity and "Perverse" Pleasures in Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime moi non plus". Sense of Cinema. Retrieved 4 August 2010.

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