It's all a great head fake. As the film turns slowly, inexhorably darker and more malevolent, you're faced with the reality that your sweet little Amelie maybe isn't what she appears to be in this outing. It's a great against-the-tide career choice by Tautou and the masterstroke of the trap Ms. Colombani's sets for her audience.

Where Colombani's film elevates itself vs. others of this genre is in its unique, impressively designed story construction. Others on these pages have alluded to the technique. I'm not going to repeat it here. It came as a surprise to me during my viewing, and it was like a special treat - my mouth dropped open suddenly as Colombani delivered her unexpected wallop. Everyone deserves that pleasure. I suggest you try to avoid extensive reading about this one before you take it in. Your lack of preparation will be well-rewarded.

Splitting Up (Rating: 5.00)
Review : Audrey Tautou's movie career began a scant 4 years ago with "The Venus Beauty Institute" and reached it's zenith, we thought with the delightful, though sometimes mean-spirited, "Amelie."
And it looked like her current American release, "He Loves Me, He Love Me Not" was going down the same road that began with "Amelie": optimistic and waif-like Angelique (Tautou), always smiling, always pleasant, always looking for the good side of things, waiting patiently for the attentions of Mr. Right, who comes in the guise of Loic (Samuel Le Bihan).
Then Angelique's psyche begins to unravel due to several acts of cruelty and thoughtlessness by Loic and director, Laetitia Colombani's sunny and light film begins a slow slide into a creepy suspense thriller. Colombani's touch is so assured and so deft that we hardly notice the gradual, unnerving change of mood and point of view...likewise with Tautou's performance. Angelique is the flip side of Amelie: appreciating the fragrance of a flower has now descended into throwing the flower into an incinerator and watching it burn.
"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" is an unexpected, surprising and perverse pleasure but it is also ultimately a tribute to and an appreciation of Audrey Tautou's talent, resourcefulness and, more to the point the inner fortitude that demands that she move her career away from the tried and true.

Light as bubbly, deadly as murder!!!! (Rating: 4.00)
Review : Audrey Tatou has a smile that could melt anyone's heart, and even when she plays an obsessed psychotic, you can't help but fall in love with her (even if her antics scare you to death). Tatou plays Anjelique, a French student who thinks she is in love with a married doctor, Loic (Samuel Le Bihan of "Brotherhood of the Wolf"), whose wife (Isabelle Carre) is pregnant. The first half of the story follows Angelique's attempts to get Loic to leave his wife and run away with her to Florence. When she is stood up, Anjelique begins to go a bit "nuts". Then, the perspective shifts, and we see the previous events through Loic's eyes, and the story seems quite different, as we see Angelique's "love" more strongly resembling a dangerous obsession.

An edge-of-the-seat thriler with touches of light comedy and numbing romance, "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" is the perfect vehicle for Tatou. She has a wicked glint in her angelic eyes that usually read as something mischievous but, in a darker context, can be extremely unsettling.

The film begins as lightly as a bubbly French farce, but abruptly turns into a scary essay of madness and murder, with Tautou at its deadly center. Everything depends on whether Angelique is actually involved with Loic or is a prisoner of her own delusions. The second part of the film replays many of the events we've already seen, but from Loic's perspective, which is quite different from Angelique's. For him, there is no affair, nothing but a sometimes pesky little neighbor he barely knows, part of a life now puzzlingly falling apart.

Which is the truth? By the end, director Laetitia Colombani clearly reveals what's going on. But she also demonstrates how dreams can consume us and quickly take over our reality.

This is a surprisingly smart, engrossing and ambitious film by a first time director that displays superstar Tautou's gifts in an eerie new light and brims with intense suspense. Not as scary or funny as it could have been, but a truly enjoyable thriller that had me captivated from first frame to last. "He Loves Me, He Loves me Not," plays like a French "Fatal Attraction," with a few bonus twists and surprises. Tatou and Le Bihan have great on-screen chemistry, turning this charming romance into a mind-numbing psychological puzzler.

This is a got to have movie!! (Rating: 5.00)
Review : You will have to see it. i agree with most of the reviews so wont rewrite it myself. but it is an amazing movie. Its actually better if you dont know too much about it before watching so you can be surpized by what happens. The actors were great and it really made you feel for them. The story line fills in blanks as it goes so during the movie your wondering and at the end you understand, which makes a great movie in my opinion. GET IT!

two sides to every romance, whether it happens or not (Rating: 5.00)
Review : Audrey Tatou plays Angelique, an art student in France who sends a rose to Loic, a doctor, to celebrate their first meeting. Loic is married, but he plans to leave his wife, insists Angelique.

The extent of Loic's involvement with Angelique is greatly exaggerated, as viewers will find. The movie shows fist Angelique's side of the story, and then Loic's. For those Tatou fans used to her playing adorable elfin creatures, they will not be disappointed, but this one has a severe twist to it.

It is well-played, and it's good to see Tatou in a different type of role, it shows her range more fully and that she is very capable as an actress of tackling different types. Bravo! Magnifique!