He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

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Using an elegant and rare, if not brilliant and unique, cinematic device, director Colombani illustrates the contrasting realities of an erotomanic stalker and her victim.

Art student Angelique attempts suicide by turning on the gas stove (without lighting the gas) in the home where she has been house sitting, next door to cardiologist Loic. (0:39)

Loic saves Angelique by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation before emergency workers load her into the ambulance. (1:14)

We learn that, apparently in a judicial proceeding, Angelique is to be confined to a "psychiatric home" after a psychiatrist has diagnosed her with erotomania. (1:27)

After she tries to escape from to mental-health technicians and nurse injects Angelique with an unspecified drug before she is placed in restraints. (1:29)

Angelique is prepared for electroconvulsive therapy. (1:30)

Angelique tells a psychiatrist she realizes that her belief that Loic loved her was just a dream. He tells her that she will do well as long as she continues to take her medication, but as she leaves the hospital, suitcase in hand, a hospital maintenance man discovers that she has created a full size likeness of Loic out of hundreds of capsules and tablets on the wall behind an armoire in her room and scrapes it off, apparently without reporting his find to the medical staff. (1:31)

delusion | electroconvulsive therapy | erotomania | Erotomanic Type | psychiatrist | restraint | stalking | suicide