Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)
Directed by Alain Resnais
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
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With the Resnais of Je t'aime, je t'aime at the wheel, this could have been a profoundly affecting rumination on being and dying and impermanence; with Fincher excreting goo over digital canvases, it's a mammoth chunk of marzipan.
Groundhog Day and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind flow from it, Cronenberg envisions the giant headspace in a garage in Scanners, Steve Martin in The Lonely Guy renders tribute to the greeting-card gag.
Suffice it to say, Tarkovsky aside, Gondry and Kaufman were also clearly influenced by the time-bending anti-linearity honed by the likes of Chris Marker (in La Jetée) and Alain Resnais (in Je t’aime, je t’aime, La Guerre est Finie, and other films).