Van Doude

Alain Resnais's ingenious melding of sci-fi and romance centres on Claude Ridder, who, following a failed suicide attempt, is asked by some scientists to participate in a mysterious time-travel experiment. Travelling back in time one year for just one minute, he becomes lost in a continually shifting mosaic of temporal episodes.

A young thug driving a stolen car shoots and kills a police officer who was pursuing him. In Paris, he turns to an American girl, a student and aspiring journalist, who hides him while he tries to raise money to escape to Italy. But as the police pressure increases, so does his desperation.