Underplayed Gems

He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (2002)

He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not poster
Original title
À la folie... pas du tout
Directed by
Lætitia Colombani
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
12
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 254 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A fine arts student falls for a married cardiologist. She believes their love is real, but the story reveals her dangerous obsession and a very different version of events.

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What happens

He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (French: À la folie... pas du tout) is a 2002 French romantic thriller film co-written and directed by Laetitia Colombani. The film focuses on a fine arts student, played by Audrey Tautou, and a married cardiologist, played by Samuel Le Bihan, with whom she is dangerously obsessed. The film studies the condition of erotomania and is both an example of the nonlinear and "unreliable narrator" forms of storytelling. The title refers to the last two lines of the French game of Effeuiller la Marguerite (Fr., "to pluck the daisy") of pulling petals off a flower, in which one seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection and to what extent: un peu ("a little"), beaucoup ("a lot"); passionnément ("passionately"): à la folie ("to madness"); pas du tout ("not at all"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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