He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

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Summary: It Ought to be a Crime
Review: To rank this movie anywhere near Audrey Tautou's other flicks (the brilliant Amelie and charming Happenstance) ought to be a crime.
One should have their sanity checked.
This movie offers nothing of Tautou's charming quirkiness; instead it offers up something that is merely disgusting and depressing.
Tautou had a kind of charming mystique going prior to this movie.
This movie has succeeded in destroying that mystique.

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Summary: Love Is What I Can Give to You, and Something More Too
Review: To reveal anything about the story would spoil the sensation you will get watching "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not." So, if you really like "Amelie"'s Audrey Tautou, just watch it without bothering to read anything. The film is a big surprise, betraying whatever you expect from charming Tautou in strikingly red clothes.

But if you need some information, let me call the film a "Hitchcockian romance." Audrey plays Angelique, an aspiring art school student, who is in love with a handsome cardiologist Samuel Le Bihan. One problem for Angelique is, he is married. But she knows he is going to divorce ... but who can tell?

And suppose Angelique, as her name implies, is always pretty and engaging. So winsome and lovely, she can convince anyone of anything. Is that called charming? Or manipulative? The film traces very unpredictable course of events that started with a single flower of rose, and a little bit of imagination. Also the film gives clever contrast or double meanings of 'heart," which would remain long in your memory.

Angelique is literally 'angelic,' or looks so. Though the cast of Tautou is decided before the international hit of "Amelie," her sweet image gives an unexpectedly uncanny and enticing power to this film, directed by Laetitia Colombani, herself an actress (and she is only 26 years old!). "He Loves Me..." which came as the result of the reseach for the paper while she was in film school, became this promising feature debut film.

The film's conclusion may not satisfy everybody, and look overlong to some of us, but "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" is a thrilling experience of watching what a love can achieve with great efforts, or its bizarre and dark flip side.

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Summary: And then what happened....
Review: Watching the first 20 minutes of this film I was mystified as to why my friend had recommended it so highly. It was a nice movie but the plot was as old as the hills and then....
Sorry, can't say more without giving it all away. See the movie before someone tells you too much! Lots of fun -

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Summary: PSYCHO AMELIE!
Review: Well don't want to spoil it who hasn't seen it but I do recommend seeing this movie and maybe when it comes to the states to get the DVD especially if you are an Audrey Tautou fan! I didn't see it France but I do have the French DVD from Amazon.fr. By the way you need a computer to watch this since its region 2 coding which can't be seen here in US and Canada. But if and once they will have the DVD out for the US/Canada - go get it, it's well worth it. Audrey is very good in this movie and she is cute as always.

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Summary: He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not
Review: What an amazing twist! This film really shows what a range Audrey Tatou has. She draws you in and then you get a lovely, dramatic slap in the face. Definetly recommend it!

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Summary: A fun movie experience
Review: When I rented this DVD, I simply did so because I loved Amelie and I loved Happenstance, so I figured I would love this too. When I started watching it, I believed I was watching a fluff romance, and kept waiting for the predictable, light-hearted laughs.
In the beginning, Audrey Tatou is picking out a rose for her boyfriend in a florist. It then goes on to show her days, sometimes elated and sometimes disappointed by her distant, married cardiologist boyfriend. She sends him gifts, he stands her up. They plan a weeklong trip, and he leaves her at the airport. When he and his wife finally DO split up, she is elated, but he is unfortunately pining for his wife. She decides her life is over, and turns on the gas. As soon as her heart stops beating though, the whole movie rewinds and starts from square one.
All of a sudden, everything you saw from her point of view is seen from his, and it's so different than what you'd expect. This shocking movie goes on to reveal a dark side of the characters, and a strangely sinister plot. Once your mind gets wrapped around what's really going on, you cannot wait to see what happens. This is not at all a fluffy romance, but more of a mind-bender (think Vanilla Sky) and actually quite suspenseful and emotional. A great movie, but don't watch it unless you want to think.

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Summary: I Loved It, I Loved It Not
Review: When I was sitting in the theater watching this film, I thought to myself: "Jeez! If I wanted to see a Julia Roberts romance I would have gone to the multiplex!" The film's first third plays as a sappy love story. I was groaning in my seat.

Then something magical happens. The film "rewinds" and plays the same scenario over again -- from the "boyfriend's" point of view. Ahhhh.

There is more to this film than meets the eye. A sort of French modern-day ROSHOMAN, HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT is ultimately a thought-provoking and entertaining film. It's plot-reversal keeps you on your toes and plays with the idea of perspective.

Audrey Tautou and Samuel Le Bihan are very good in their roles; you get a chance to hate then feel sorry for them depending on which version of the story the film is portraying.

Enjoy it, enjoy it not.

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Summary: Whoa, baby! Not at all what you might expect
Review: Whoa, baby! Not at all what you might expect
Remember Audrey Tautou from Amelie? Adorable, right? So here she is in another flick, and it start off with her utterly charming face, luminous eyes, and incredible smile emerging from a whole screen full of roses. Oh goody, you think: Amelie redux. Right?
Wrong.
This is one twisted, creepy, really, really good, um, thriller. I guess that'd be the best word for it. There are two parts to the movie. The first is from the POV of a lovely young girl in love with a married doctor who's jerking her around by her heartstrings. The second is the doctor's story - and that's when you begin to think, whoa, baby. There's a lot more ingenious stuff going on here than meets the eye on first glance.