Audrey Tautou, Catherine Cyler, Clement Sibony

With the streets of Bordeaux as backdrop, this thriller paints a picture of love gone awry. Angelique (Audrey Tautou), an artist and student, is in love and claims that her paramour, Luic, a cardiolog...( read more  read more... )ist (Samuel Le Bihan), is just as enamored of her. But is he? He's married, for one, and he and his wife are expecting a baby. Brokenhearted, Angelique decides her love should conquer all.

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PG-13, 96 min.

Directed by: Laetitia Colombani

Release Date: March 27, 2002

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DVD Release Date: August 12, 2003

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  • January 20, 2008
    A wickedly clever French psycho-thriller and examination of romantic obsession and deranged love, told from different perspectives. Full of wit, suspense and cold-blooded detachment. Audrey Tautou gives the most dark and dubious performance of her career. From a series of sweet, ...( read more)Amélie-like and utterly adorable characters to a psychopathic killer... Needless to say she's as great as always.
  • December 12, 2007
    The French keep on making good movies. This one at a glance would seem like a romantic poop ship, but it is really rather amazing. Without giving it away, it follows a girl's side of the story, then halfway through the movie switches to the beginning showing the guys side, and...( read more) they are so different it's amazing how it could be twisted to make one storyline. Very good stuff, and Audrey Tautou is a psycho.
  • May 13, 2007
    Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. We see her attempts to make him leave his pregnant wife, but he does not appear for meetings or finally the booked journey to Florence.

    For a film in which the plot seems very predictable and obvious it didn;t becom...( read more)e that way towards the end of the film. It starts of as an affair, what we are led to believe, from one point of view seemed predictable at one point. The use of two narratives worked well as it gave a whole new slant on the film. Chnaged it from a avergae affirs to a dangerous liason which we evntually find out about.

    The re-wind technique of different perspectives, descended from the Japanese "Rashomon," has combined entertainment with philosophical insight by the German Tom Tykwer, in such as "Run Lola Run," and with socio-political commentary in the Mexican "Amores Perros." Add in the American know-how of creepiness from "Fatal Attraction" and "One Hour Photo," and the French writer/director Laetitia Colombani, mais oui, applies it all to matters of the heart.

    She uses both a rational and visual approach to an enormously entertaining take on "she says, he says"/"he loves she who is in love with he who is in love with she" etc. that is an unpredictable roller coaster.

    Our other stereotypical assumptions also lead to other surprises. Unlike Hollywood, this movie respects our intelligence, and leaves us to figure out what's going on and anticipate what will happen after the end.

    Just like it took awhile to feel good about "Singing in the Rain" after seeing "Clockwork Orange" and a certain classic rock song after "Reservoir Dogs," you may get a frisson of the creepies from Nat King Cole after this.

    Audrey Tatou plays a role totally different from her role as Amelie, in the 2001 film. From the outset her character appears innocent and I felt sympathy for her and especially her friend who just wanted to be with her. She certainly changed my opion on her acting.

    What I loved at the end of the film was the fact it wasn't predicatble at atll. HAving the two narratives, told by two different perspectives before that made be think I knew what was coming. What a twist at the end!

    What the director does well is making the audience think they know what's going to happen but the tables are turned at the end as I said before.

    I loved the photography which makes the film seem innocent from the beginning. Also gives a brilliant landscap ideology of France. Just brilliant.

    Overall worth the watch for Tatou's performance. Just don't expect a romantic film because it just isn't.
  • January 22, 2007
    Audrey Tautou is amazingly talented. This movie is a fresh, original mystery with a ton of life and some really inspired camerawork. I'd really like to see it again soon.
  • October 15, 2006
    Very watchable. Cleverly told.
  • November 24, 2009
    amazing and crazy...
  • November 13, 2009
    Il bello di questo film è che all'inizio sembra un filmetto d'amore qualunque, poi invece ricomincia da capo e diventa un po' angosciante.
    La fine me la ricordo sempre con un po' di brividini.
  • August 25, 2009
    Oh, how sweet, until it turns out girlfriend is CAH RAZY.
  • August 17, 2009
    i'll watch anything with Audrey Tautou!!!!!!!!!!
  • August 17, 2009
    the best from the sweet audrey tautou..

Critic Reviews


April 18, 2003
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

The film is deft, delicious work, but a very different romantic fantasy than you probably expect. full review

March 21, 2003
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

It's both a stylish exploration of a young woman's obsession and a refreshing tweak to the screen persona of that art-house darling, Audrey (Amélie) Tautou. full review

March 14, 2003
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Made without the finesse or depth of character that would distinguish it from any number of American-made thrillers about homicidal spurned lovers. full review

February 21, 2003
Nick Schager, Nitrate Online

Very little fun, and, even at ninety minutes, is easily thirty minutes too long. full review

February 14, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today

A story of love and obsession that makes for an intriguing cinematic experience on Valentine's or any other day. full review

February 14, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

An acerbic examination of erotic obsession, told from different perspectives, with wit, suspense and cold-blooded detachment. full review

February 13, 2003
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

A weird, bubbly cocktail -- effervescent charm and troubling pathology, shaken together. full review

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