a la folie pas du tout

i just watched this french movie tt i rented, which features andrey tautou.

oh my god.

it has such a fantastic plot, something i totally did not see it coming.

i guess sometimes its better if you watch something without knowing too much of whats going to happen.

i only read the description on the back, and also had read previously that it was a very good movie, that's all. i think im glad that i didnt know too much, coz if i had, it would be as captivating.

the movie starts off with andrey tautou getting ready to meet this person, someone who's married, who had a wife who's pregnant and such, it does seem like its the guy who's screwed up. he hardly meets her, keeps promises that he cant keep, and stood her up for a trip that they were supposed to have. by the half of the movie, he's clearly the asshole and she's so heartbroken. seeing andrey tautou like that, i felt like hugging her, coz i know her as a beautiful, innocent, simply girl that i saw in amelie.

then, the movie takes a turn. this time, it rewinds and sees everything from the guy's point of view. shockingly, i found out that she doesnt know him at all! as everything progresses, its evident that she was imagining everything, while this guy knew nothing. she came up with the trip herself, but she doesnt realize, coz in the end, she's a mentally sick person.

what a twist! and in the end, she gets admitted to a mental hospital, only to be released few years later, after she cons them into thinking she understood that she was living in her world tts in her head, which is not a reality. but then, as a cleaner is cleaning up her room, he finds a portrait of the guy made wit all the medication that she supposedly had taken over the years.

amazing, just amazing.

i was deliberating whether to reveal that bit about her being sick, coz i would strongly encourage everyone to catch this, but if you know the plot, its gonna be a dead boring show.

this is the difference when you watch a good show that you dont know much about. but then choosing the show is so difficult, coz if you know its good, inevitably you know the plot too. but this being some foreign movie that i hardly knew, this was possible. not exactly possible for a hollywood show. the only movie that i was totally taken aback was probably the sixth sense, where in the end, bruce willis was actually a ghost.

but this was fantastic. and i so love andrey tautou more than ever. just 2 of her shows, but the way they portray her, its just amazing.