Madly in love

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Movie
German title Madly in love
Original title À la folie… pas you tout!
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2002
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lætitia Colombani
script Lætitia Colombani,
Caroline Thivel
production Charles Gassot
music Jérôme Coullet
camera Pierre Aïm
cut Véronique Parnet
occupation

Insanely in love (original title: À la folie… pas du tout! ) Is a French film from 2002. The psychological thriller directed by Lætitia Colombani with Audrey Tautou and Samuel Le Bihan in the leading roles tells a fateful case of female erotomania . The film shows the events one after the other from the two completely different perspectives of the two protagonists .

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From Angélique's point of view

The young art student and temporary waitress Angélique has temporarily moved into the house next door to Loïc, a married doctor, to take care of it during the owner's year-long stay in the USA. She tells her best friend Héloise about a love affair with the doctor. She sends him a rose and love letters to the practice, attends the same medical congress that David, a medical student, is also present at. David is in love with Angélique, but she only has eyes for Loïc, the doctor. In the park, she watches him and the children of his friend and colleague play and draws him there. For his birthday, she sends him a picture she has painted into the practice, which his office assistant hangs up in his office. Angélique now hopes that he will finally separate from his wife, because the couple gets into a crisis when the pregnant woman finds the stormy love letters from Angélique and believes her husband is leading a double life. Angélique is expecting Loïc for a joint birthday party in her house, but he does not come and does not send her any news. That makes her very unhappy. The scarf that he gave her cannot comfort her either. But she decides to have him copy a key to the house. When she saw him with his wife in front of the courthouse the next day, she wrote a nasty message on the windshield of his car with a waterproof pen.

Angélique has an accident with the scooter borrowed from Héloise . Loic's wife miscarries . Angélique is delighted that Loïc will now fly with her to Florence as promised and is waiting for him at the airport. But again he does not come, which throws Angélique completely off track. She completely isolates herself, withdraws into her house and over time lets it become more and more neglected. She also forgets the art competition in Paris, for which she should have painted pictures. Her friend Héloise and David are very worried. David visits the doctor and accuses him of having dumped Angélique as ice cold, which he confirms. David is beside himself and agrees to help Angélique with an act of revenge against the doctor.

A few days later, Loïc hit the headlines for assaulting a patient. Angélique sees him on TV, as does the patient who threatens to file a criminal complaint against the doctor during an interview . The next morning, the media reported on the nightly murder of the patient. When the police went to Angélique to question her, they told Héloise that they had spent the evening together.

The suspicion finally falls on Loïc, he is arrested for the murder of his patient. Angélique observes that Loïc and his wife kiss goodbye when he is arrested and have apparently made up again. A world collapses for Angélique. She turns on the gas stove in the house and lies down on the floor.

At this point the film rewinds back to the beginning of the story.

From Loïc's point of view

The cardiologist is happily married to lawyer Rachel. Both are expecting their first child. He is happy that his wife has sent him a rose and a love letter to the practice, but in the evening he finds out that his wife was not the sender. He suspects, however, that a patient wanted to thank him with it. At a medical congress he goes to alone, he meets the young woman who has temporarily moved into the neighboring house. In the evening he drives her home.

He receives more love letters, but cannot explain from whom. While leaving for a picnic in the park with family and friends, his wife loses a blue scarf in the street. After playing with the son of his colleague and friend, he suddenly finds drawings on a park bench that depict the two of them playing and that have obviously just been painted and deliberately deposited in such a way that he had to find them. He panics. This increases even more when a large-format painting depicting him hangs in his practice a few days later. His office hours assistant, with whom he has been dissatisfied for some time, says it was from his girlfriend who called. But she didn't write the name down, which makes him angry. He thinks frantically who the stranger could be. However, his wife, who visits him in his office, likes the picture very much and she takes it home with her.

Rachel finds the love letters and a clear message on the back of the painting. She is now convinced that her husband has a lover and does not want to believe him when he asserts that he does not know who all this came from. At first she stays, but after Loïc has received a fake key through the door slot in another love letter, she leaves the house to move in with her mother.

Loïc intercepts his wife in front of the courthouse the next day, where she has an appointment, but Rachel calls him off. On the windshield of his car he finds a message left with a smudge-proof pen.

When his wife is hit by a scooter driver , who then hit and run, she has a miscarriage. Loïc is completely thrown off course. He dismisses his office assistant because of a careless mistake. A young man, apparently her boyfriend, who comes into his practice and loudly accuses him of simply dumping her, he throws out. Finally, a package is handed in to his practice, the contents of which turns out to be a human heart pierced with an arrow. At this moment a patient enters the consulting room, who for weeks has been unnecessarily baring herself in front of him in order to be examined by him and who, in his opinion, is behind all the actions. He goes nuts, attacks her and slaps her in the face.

When this woman was murdered the following night, the police arrested Loïc. But his wife, who now believes him, stands by him as a lawyer. She gives him an alibi and he can go. At night he hears sirens in front of his house and sees an ambulance in front of the house next door. The young woman from the neighborhood tried to kill herself with gas. He gives first aid , the neighbor comes to. In the hospital he is attacked by the young man whom he had thrown out of the practice and who is now again accusing him of not leaving her alone. It suddenly becomes clear that it was the neighbor who had been chasing him all along. In the evening he tries the key that he received some time ago at the neighboring house - it fits. In the derelict house he finds an envelope with tickets for a flight to Florence that go with a letter he received. The woman had apparently mistaken an advertising brochure for a message from him. Eventually he comes across a life-size picture of himself with a withered rose. In a flashback you can see that months ago he received the news of his wife's pregnancy, bought her a bouquet of flowers and, out of happiness, gave his neighbor a rose from it. This was apparently the trigger for Angélique's delusions. When leaving the house, he does not notice the motorcycle helmet. It becomes clear to the viewer who was the driver of the scooter in the accident.

Some time later, Angélique appears in his practice. She still thinks they are lovers. When he rebuked her unequivocally, she knocked him down with a bronze bust, causing him to fall down the stairs. She is arrested and he is seriously injured and paralyzed and taken to the hospital. She is declared incompetent and therefore not of legal age and admitted to a clinic for erotomania .

Years later, Loïc has largely recovered from his injuries. He and his wife now have two young children. Angélique is discharged as cured with a reminder to take medication regularly. When a housekeeper is tidying up her former room, he discovers a mosaic picture behind the closet made up of all the pills she has been supposed to take over the years. The cleaning man removes the picture and Angélique leaves the sanatorium unmolested.

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After her great success with the romance The Fabulous World of Amélie , Audrey Tautou has long been identified with this character. When she then decided on this dark material, the criticism raised the accusation that she only wanted to break away from her image, which Audrey Tautou denied.

Lætitia Colombani was nominated for the Golden Ear at the Valladolid International Film Festival .

Reviews

"Coolly constructed and brilliantly staged thriller which, based on the psychosis of its protagonist, raises the question of the relativity of perception and the illusionary character of romantic love."

- Lexicon of international film

“[...]“ Insanely in love ”lives from the breaks that make this delightful confusion between kitsch romance and psychological thriller so excitingly unpredictable. Angélique, like Amélie, dreams of an ideal world. And it is dangerous because it believes dreams are stronger than reality. That must be a rude awakening. Audrey Tautou, however, has no illusions. She won't be able to shake off her most famous role anytime soon. But she will not justify or even apologize for being Amélie. In view of this original follow-up film, she doesn't need that anyway. "

- Cinema

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crazy in love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2013 (PDF; test number: 91 311 V).
  2. ↑ a b Insanely in love - About this film. In: CINEMA. Retrieved July 3, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Crazy in love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used