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Erotomania

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From the 2003 French movie   He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not , starring Audrey Tautou, and Sam Le Bihan. It would be the former rather than the latter pictured above. Audrey Tautou plays a promising art student in love with a married doctor. Unfortunately for the artist, the doctor is unwilling to leave his pregnant wife. The movie begins with the girl's face among the red roses of a flower shop where she purchases a single rose for her love. This cute little stick-of-a-girl finds disappointment in all of her attempts to become the sole owner of the doctor's heart. When the burden of this heaping pile of unfulfilled expectations drags her to the brink of ending her relationship with the doctor (and everyone else), she has a full conversion to the dark side; her efforts to obtain her desire intensify to full Mumm Ra  mode. The film goes full noir from that moment. Neither her life, nor the doctor's life will ever be the same again. To borrow from the lyrics of Red Rider...