He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not (2003)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Love, as they say, is deadlier than hate sometimes: Love which is actually not but obsession!A young girl is obsessed with one of her neighbors who is married. The girl devices plan (even sinister ones) to get the man.The director/story-teller does an awesome job to make the viewer otherwise for most part of the movie. If you are not reading this review before watching the movie then I think you'll definitely agree with me that it came as a shock when you got to know that whatever was happening was the work of an obsessed lover!Even when everything looks fine and you are contemplating a happy ending the director throws a bucketful of surprise to make your pupil dilated and put a smirk on your lips.

The film "He loves me, she loves not…" is a paradox and it has two perspectives. The film was directed by Laetitia Colombani. There are two keys actors in the movie, which is Angelique (a fine Arts student), and Loïc (a male-married cardiologist). Angelique is an obsessive, psychotic, deluded, and paranoid female but she is in the low class. Loïc is an honest, loyal, confrontational, and confusing male but falls in the high class. There are two scenes which center deeply on the subjective nature of truth. The first scene is where Loïc listens to the voice messages. In this scene there were medium shots. The editing's were jump cuts. There weren't any camera movements. The camera angle was a low angle camera. The sound was a score and soundtrack but it felt truthful, deplorable, and sad. The second scene is where Angelique is visiting Loïc. In this scene there were close- up shots. The editing's were jump cuts. The camera movement was tilting. The camera angle was a high angle camera and low angle camera. The sounds were a score and sound effects but it felt deep, honest, shocking, and rejective. The first scene is where Loïc attends to the voice messages. Firstly, there is a gray color, which means practical. Secondly, there is a yellow color, which means dishonesty, deceit, or cowardice. Besides, there are purple and black colors, which mean transformation yet unhappiness. The second scene is where Angelique is seeing Loïc. Firstly, there is a blue color, which means confidence and truth. Secondly, there is a white color, which means simplicity, precision, or innocence. Moreover, there is a black color, which means power, mystery, and evil. If you really like love affairs, I will recommend this film to you because it's a fast pace film but it deals with misconceptions, miscommunication, De Clérambault's syndrome, and hyper-sexuality.

We watched this film today in a French lesson and the whole class was hooked. A bunch of fifteen year old boys and girls sat totally enthralled by this movie. They even stayed in over their break to watch the end. So many turns and surprises and shocks! Gripping and shocking right until the very last second. Everyone was extremely shocked.A very very entertaining watch. The kids were extremely pleased and satisfied to solve the mysteries just as they were revealed on screen and were even more amazed when something totally unexpected happened! With fabulous actors and the beautiful and AMAZING Audrey Tautou!

Audrey Tatou portrays Angelique; a beautiful and talented art student who falls deeply in love with married cardiologist Loïc. Over the first half of this movie, they plan how he will escape from his unhappy marriage, his pregnant wife and live an idyllic existence together. Initially, the story focuses on Angelique's point of view; we see her conspiring with her treacherous paramour, leaving voice mail messages and sending love letters and as such, this appears to be no more than a conventional, if rather sordid tale of betrayal and marital infidelity. However, half way through the movie, our perspective changes, and now we see the story through the eyes of Angelique's object of desire; Loïc. Without giving away the ingenious premise, I will say that the story is not as straightforward as it first appears. Our preconceptions and expectations are challenged, and the personalities of the participants are laid bare. This is a sometimes uncomfortable examination of obsession and the lengths human beings will go to in the name of love.