305 days, 305 films- He Loves Me He Loves Me Not (À la folie… pas du tout)

Mar 3, 2010 by Sami

Film #2 He Loves Me He Loves Me Not.

You see someone across the room that you really like and immediately start fantasizing about the kind of future you’ll have together. Maybe you’ll both leave the party at the same time and he’ll offer you a ride, after that, you’ll plan to go out for dinner together. Before you know it you’re going through the options of where to have your wedding and the names of your children. He Loves Me is exactly about that kind of fantasy…multiplied it by a hundred or so.

I have seen few of Audrey Tautou films and she is always a pleasure to watch. It wasn’t a surprise  when I  started watching this film and liked how well she portrays someone who is madly in love. Not sure if it’s the fact that she is French, a great actress or both but ever since Amelie I’ve always thought she easily tapped into my inner overly romantic soul.  He Loves Me is about the delusions we sink ourselves in due to our overly imaginative brain cells but still allows us to have a laugh because we’re looking at it from the outside in.

He Loves Me He Loves Me Not is available on Netlix and, to no doubt, your local video rental store.

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SPY(ies)

Oct 18, 2009 by Sami

I believe that most of our lives go on unplanned. As much organizing and effort one puts into having a straight line from point A to point B, most of the time, line has lots of curves and waves. If you did have a straight line, then the points you can stop at between A and B are infinite. Or so my math teacher taught me.

For me, a very important stop happened when I needed an elective and the only class offered was a photography class. What on Earth am I going to learn at a photography class?! I learned things I wish to never forget. My professor once told me, when she was in France, she witnessed something that she did not expect. Artists there are treated like doctors and lawyers. With so much respect and admiration. I was reminded of that by director Nicolas Saada when he said something very similar. He said “by declaring yourself an artist you are removing yourself from the class system”.

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