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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Samuel Goldwyn Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Audrey Tautou,
Samuel Le Bihan,
Isabelle Carré,
Clément Sibony,
Sophie Guillemin,
Eric Savin,
Michèle Garay,
and
Elodie Navarre
The relationship between a student and a married doctor is examined from each of their perspectives.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Laetitia Colombani
Caroline Thivel
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Laetitia Colombani
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 12, 2003
Video: August 12, 2003
Theatrical: February 14, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
92 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original French title "À la folie... pas du tout"
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Movie-style romance may never look quite the same. Neither will flower petals.
100
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's difficult to overstate how much of a rare find this movie is. Colombani and her cast remind us that the best thrillers are built upon superb writing and strong acting.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is an acerbic examination of erotic obsession, told from different perspectives, with wit, suspense and cold-blooded detachment.
88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
This genre-busting movie has the appearance of a love story but morphs into a thriller, told cleverly in a nonlinear style. Think "Sliding Doors" crossed with "The Sixth Sense," with a little "Memento" thrown in.
80
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Turns on an intellectual gimmick in the vein of "Memento," weaving down sinister byways, the better to click with satisfying symmetry.
80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Wickedly clever.
80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Mercifully there's more Hitchcock than Lacan in this slickly enjoyable little number, which cannily plays off the ingénue image of "Amélie's" Audrey Tautou.
80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
May not change the world, but it's deeply creepy and richly satisfying.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An impressively assured and confident first film and has been made with such attention to detail and mood that it's possible to regret not paying closer attention to its cleverly deceptive first part. It is ultimately unsettling in the utmost, its creepiness leavened by only the slightest touch of pitch-dark humor.
80
Time
Richard Schickel
Colombani has created uncommonly arresting entertainment.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Poses a problem for reviewers. The entire story hinges on a plot device that occurs roughly midway through the film and alters everything that has come before. To give away this massive, unavoidable spoiler would be disastrous and unforgivable.
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Perhaps not since Truffaut's "The Story of Adele H" has thwarted love been rendered so compassionately on the screen, its psychology laid bare.
67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The film holds charms for everyone but in a very unusual way: If some audience members feel cheated at the halfway mark, others will feel that the film is finally getting started. Nifty!
67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The fact that it's difficult to believe someone who looks as dewy as Tautou would be so dangerous is much of the game.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
An interesting choice for a Valentine's Day outing, He Loves Me is a weird, bubbly cocktail -- effervescent charm and troubling pathology, shaken together.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Though I wouldn't call He Loves Me a total success, it's smart, intriguing and quite ambitious, a first film by a talented young filmmaker that displays superstar Tautou's gifts in an eerie new light.
60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
It's clever enough, but it's mostly a contrivance to hide the fact that there's nothing interesting about the story itself.
60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Not half as clever as its setup leads you to think it might be: It's all buildup and no payoff, the kind of romantic thriller in which if just one sensible character called the police at the moment as any normal human being would -- well, then, you wouldn't have a movie.
50
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
While the story starts tying up its loose ends nicely, as the end approaches, the film turns flat. It's a disappointment.
50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Standing on its own, it's comme ci, comme ça, self-serious when it should be adventurous, coy when it should be revelatory. One must afford it props, though, for its proud celebration of insanity. Now that is truly creepy.
40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Like "The Sixth Sense," He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not reaches for a crowning final twist, but in this case it falls flat.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The trouble with director and co-writer Laetitia Colombani's debut feature is that the story isn't really interesting enough to be told twice, let alone dragged out another 20 minutes after that.
38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Settles for the cliches of American suspense films, right down to an ending that leaves the door open to a possible sequel.
30
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Baggy and overbroad, He Loves Me is notable only as a corrective to cinema's promiscuity with fabulous destinies.
25
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
It's a sugar cube laced with arsenic, a nasty little film whose mean-spiritedness is surpassed only by its mediocrity.
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