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09/02/2019 I was always behind the 8 ball with this fascinating movie, and was totally flummoxed by the ending, had she descended in to a complete delusional state, having a child, then not having one, was she still in the mental asylum? See more 11/25/2016 French language with subtitles Writer-Director: Michel Spinosa With Isabelle Carre Anna (Isabelle Carre) seems to be an attractive quiet, studious worker in the manuscript repair department of a Paris museum. But she hides a hidden madness that is revealed as the story unfolds. Early on, there is a mysterious intent to commit suicide by stepping into traffic, but ends up with broken legs. Then a few scenes later she is getting physical therapy from a handsome, kind but professional Dr Zanevsky. And like a chick imprinting on its mother, she latches on to him with a delusional, erotic obsession of which he remains unaware for a time. Now it enters bunny-boiler territory as she stalks him, sends messages of devotion which the good doctor tries to rebuff. But no matter what he does, he cannot get her to stop. She is not homicidal though - when sneaking up behind his wife at an underground station she stops herself from pushing her into the line. But her madness continues until her bizzare behaviour warrants her commitment to an asylum. But after a few months she manages to convince the doctors that she is cured. Not surprisingly, the doctor and his wife have escaped from Paris and she as she fails to find them, her madness descends into nightmarish hallucinations. She seems to find a semblance of normality towards the end - but the final scene makes it apparent that she is as obsessed as ever. See more 10/22/2013 Cette Isabelle Carre est vraiment folle! See more 08/09/2011 Disturbing, but engaging depiction of a dangerous obsession through a sincere depiction - although this plot has certainly been done before. See more 06/27/2011 Increasingly unhinged female-stalker film that starts off as a rip-off of <b>The Piano Teacher</b>, but moves past its early penchant for pretentious navel gazing (literally) and develops into something genuinely unsettling and blackly comic, with a masterful performance by Isabelle Carre in the title role. See more 05/01/2011 Some hand over mouth moments, the kind of film that plucks into your imagination. If you can handle subtitles then this film isn't so bad See more Read all reviews

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