Angélique, a young, gifted art student is in love with a 35-year-old cardiologist named Loïc. The only problem is that the object of her affections is not only a father-to-be but is also happily married to someone else. But when you are madly in love and desire something enough, nothing will stand in your way.
First we see Angélique's attempts to make Loïc leave his pregnant wife, but he does not appear for the arranged meetings, or finally for the planned and booked journey to Florence. The narrative is then reset to the beginning, showing the viewpoint of Loïc relative to the same sequence of events – and things seem quite different now. The film uses restricted editing to show the two perspectives and in the end the two versions converge with surprising consequences.
Angélique is completely delusional about everything that happens. At the beginning we see her with a rose. We see the light of love and romance in her eyes. She thinks, and makes us believe, that Loïc is her lover. Later in Loïc's version we see that he only vaguely remembers handing a rose to a pretty young girl, a stranger, from a large bouquet bought for his wife to celebrate her pregnancy.
Described as an amazing psychological thriller masquerading as a trite romance, He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not is a provocative and unsettling study of amour fou. A taught, complex, and cleverly presented tale of the passion and obsession of a girl afflicted with the rare disorder de Clérambault's Syndrome, who will stop at absolutely nothing to actualise delusion.
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