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LOVE ME
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France
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 107 min.
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A young woman is alone at an airport and has no idea how she got here or where she came from. No passport, no memories. Gabrielle Rose is all alone, somewhere in America... or so she thinks. There's a man looking for her and she's running from him. She meets a singer, by chance, an aging French rock star who goes by the name of Lennox and specializes in gravel-voiced renditions of Presley cover tunes. Lennox looks worn out. Gabrielle asks him to help her but he leaves her in the lurch. She loses consciousness and dreams about her past, which doesn't especially interest her. When she comes to again, she latches on to Lennox. She can't imagine life without him. Gabrielle's love begins to touch him. Finally they spend a night together, get to know each other a bit better. And they fall in love. But he is forced to give her up. He's being pursued by a mysterious armed man. He leaves her and she wants to die. But she can't escape her past. She plunges back into her memories, surrounded by ghosts...
If you don't understand, that's normal. If you're lost, it's okay. Let yourself go, go with the flow. Let emotion be your guide. You're being taken inside the character's head. To be sure, it's not always simple in her head, nor very clear. But is it any better in your head? -- Laetitia Masson
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Script: Laetitia Masson.
Phot.: Antoine H�berl�.
Ed.: A�lo Auguste.
Mus.: John Cale.
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-Fran�ois St�venin, Aurore Cl�ment, Salom� St�venin, Anh Duong, Julie Depardieu, Christine Boisson, Elie Semoun, Julian Sands, Cynthia McPherson, Ken Samuels.
Prod.: Alain Sarde, Les Films Alain Sarde, 17, rue Dumont d'Urville, 75116 Paris (France), t�l.: (01) 44 43 43 70, fax: (01) 47 20 61 50.
Sales: F.P.I., 5, rue Richepanse, 75008 Paris (France), t�l.: (01) 42 96 02 20, fax: (01) 40 20 05 51.
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Laetitia Masson
Born in �pinal, France in 1967, Laetitia Masson studied literature before taking up cinema at FEMIS, the Paris film school. She made her directorial debut in 1993 with the short film, Chant de guerre parisien. She followed that with a medium-length film, Nulle part (1993), and Vertige de l'amour (1994), a short made as part of the 3000 sc�narios contre un virus series. She made her auspicious debut in features with EN AVOIR (OU PAS) in 1995, which went on to win numerous prizes at international festivals as well as a C�sar for actress Sandrine Kiberlain. She has also directed Priv�e d'amour (music video,1996), Je suis venue te dire... (1996) and � VENDRE (1998). |
