He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

This is what those Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedies would look like if they were made by cynical French people. Audrey Tautou, famous for her enormous eyes and lovable lead in Amelie, plays a charming young woman who is in love with a married man. The affair is told from her perspective, then the film is rewound and told again from his perspective … except that he doesn’t really have a perspective. It’s an amazing cinematic trick, and it replicates the course of love itself, in that it starts as a romantic comedy and ends as a creepy, Hitchcock-esque thriller.