He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not had been sitting in my Netflix Queue for some time. I hadn't heard much about it but my love for Audrey Tautou made me curious to see it. I kept putting it off though, something about the cover and the tag line "Is she crazy in love, or just crazy?" made it seem kind of like a cutsie romantic comedy that wasn't going to interest me. However, my sister who had been putting off seeing it for the same reason finally watched it and told me how great it was. I must thank her because if not for her I might have taken an even longer time to watch this wonderful film.
The film is far from a silly romantic comedy in any way, it falls closer to a thriller than anything else and at some points in the film it even gets rather disturbing. That being said the tag line that I mentioned before should not be taken as a light hearted jest, the tag line should be taken rather seriously, because the sanity of the Angelique (Audrey Tautou) is in question for quite a bit of the film.
Audrey Tautou plays Angelique marvelously as is expected since she has yet to disappoint me in any film I have seen her in, it doesn't hurt that she is pretty damn cute as well. However in this film, that cute and innocent looking exterior may be hiding something much more sinister and disturbing. Audrey Tautou does a good job of making us wonder if Angélique is really all there for most of the movie. Sometimes she seems to be on the verge of a breakdown and sometimes she lets her anger do some dastardly things.
The whole movie is put together in a way that the audience really doesn't know what to expect from Angelique. At first she seems like a sweet and innocent girl that wouldn't hurt a fly. However when Loic, the married man that she is dating begins to leads her on and breaks promises she begins to lose it. Has Loic led her down this path of self destruction or is there something even more troubling going on for Angelique? One of the best parts of the film is that the audience gets to see the relationship between Loic and Angelique from both sides of the relationship. Only after the audience has seen both sides can they really see how this relationship came into existence and how Angelique's problems began to manifest themselves. I definitely loved this film; it was a well written and well acted thriller that kept me on my toes quite a bit. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially if you are a fan of Audrey Tautou.
The film is far from a silly romantic comedy in any way, it falls closer to a thriller than anything else and at some points in the film it even gets rather disturbing. That being said the tag line that I mentioned before should not be taken as a light hearted jest, the tag line should be taken rather seriously, because the sanity of the Angelique (Audrey Tautou) is in question for quite a bit of the film.
Audrey Tautou plays Angelique marvelously as is expected since she has yet to disappoint me in any film I have seen her in, it doesn't hurt that she is pretty damn cute as well. However in this film, that cute and innocent looking exterior may be hiding something much more sinister and disturbing. Audrey Tautou does a good job of making us wonder if Angélique is really all there for most of the movie. Sometimes she seems to be on the verge of a breakdown and sometimes she lets her anger do some dastardly things.
The whole movie is put together in a way that the audience really doesn't know what to expect from Angelique. At first she seems like a sweet and innocent girl that wouldn't hurt a fly. However when Loic, the married man that she is dating begins to leads her on and breaks promises she begins to lose it. Has Loic led her down this path of self destruction or is there something even more troubling going on for Angelique? One of the best parts of the film is that the audience gets to see the relationship between Loic and Angelique from both sides of the relationship. Only after the audience has seen both sides can they really see how this relationship came into existence and how Angelique's problems began to manifest themselves. I definitely loved this film; it was a well written and well acted thriller that kept me on my toes quite a bit. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially if you are a fan of Audrey Tautou.