[He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not]
Interesting take on the feminine madness of Black Narcissus and Play Misty for Me. This uses Audrey Tautou’s adorable qualities to good effect in her role as an art student infatuated with a handsome, married doctor. She becomes schizophrenically-obsessed with him and imagines a non-existent affair; all the while acting as though it were real.
This film cannot quite decide whether it is a thriller or a serious dissection of obsession, paranoia and unrequited love. It sits unhappily between these three stools with only Tautou’s undeniable charm to keep us going. In the end, it is little more than a movie with a casting gimmick that uses the persona of its lead from a previous film to completely undercut audience expectations. Here, she only appears to be delightful when in fact she is quite lonely and seriously screwed-up.
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