There's no doubt about it; if you're a Classical music buff you could do a lot worse than monitoring French cinema for, say, the last decade or two where you can select from such titles as Un Coeur en hiver, Les Chorists, The Piano Tutor, The Freelancers, My Children Are Not Like Others, All The Mornings Of The World, to name only six. Supplementing those titles is this feature debut by Sophie Laloy, best known as a technician in the Sound department, which rejoices in at least three separate titles, the original French (Je te mangerais), plus two English translations, Highly Strung and You Will Be Mine. Whether by accident or design it tens to resist classification and/or genre. Gifted pianist Marie has a chance to study for a year at the conservatory in Lyon but can't swing the freight on a room so she accepts an invitation from Emma, whom she hasn't seen since they were children, to share a large flat in the city which Emma more or less inherited from her parents (dead father, missing mother). Naturally Emma turns out to be a world-class Control Freak as well as a fully paid up Lesbian and as this is glaringly obvious in the first two reels it only remains for the director to decide whether she is making a psychological thriller or a Valentine to the sisterhood but it seems she has something of a Hamlet issue so the film caroms between the two genres like a pinball in a machine. Despite this it remains highly watchable and well acted by the two leads.
Review of You Will Be Mine
