He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not is a movie with a gimmick, but one where the audience should pay no mind to that gimmick at all. As we might expect, it’s a movie about a person with a love problem. We open with Angelique (Audrey Tautou) in a florist shop. She searches out the perfect rose, and proceeds to beg the proprietor to deliver it to her boyfriend. Tautou’s signature cute and perky … [Read more...]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is in a special category of directors. Leaving aside Alien: Resurrection, which is an anomaly of historic proportions, his films have a very special flavor to them. Developing his craft through Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, Jeunet was thrust center-stage with 2001's Amelie. His films have a unique visual style, but what truly separates him from the herd is the … [Read more...]
