Audrey Tautou is truly captivating in this romantic thriller about love and obsession. It all starts with a single rose which Angelique has delivered to her handsome lover, Loic (Samuel Le Bihan). Deeply in love and on the brink of success in her career as an artist, Angelique's bliss conveys a woman who has it all. But through a startling series of events, her enchanted life - and our understanding of it - begins to unravel in front of our eyes. Is Loic the object of her desire or delusion? Do they share unbridled passion, or is this love affair the one-sided obsession of a desperate woman clinging to a hopeless dream . . . and turning it into a nightmare when she realizes it may not come true?
French with English Subtitles
DVD, 2003, PG-13 96 mins
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