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

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

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.

obsessivetenseunreliabletwistyromanticmelancholicvisually polishedunsettlingambiguous

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)

Trailer

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