Word: colombani
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...film, director (and co-writer) Laetitia Colombani's He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not...gets real. It retells the story objectively, with Angelique as a stalker, harassing a man she scarcely knows. One might think a twice-told tale would be boring. It's not. It's the basis for an intricately ironic, darkly witty movie with a twist ending that is both utterly surprising and utterly right...
...part the film works so well because Colombani, 27, whose first feature this is, is a terrifically assured filmmaker. Partly it's because Tautou, who won many a heart as too-good-to-be-true Amelie two years ago, here displays a more dangerous kind of innocence with a charm that shades off into obsessive madness in very gentle, persuasive increments. Mostly, it's because this French film brings a cool, almost Pascalian logic to the messy topic of erotomania. Many of us have probably built agreeable little romantic fantasies out of some playful, innocent exchange with the opposite...