Writer/director Laetitia Colombani says:
"When I was at the Ecole Louis Lumière, I chose the theme of madness in cinema for my thesis. The idea for this film sprung from that experience...

"In the initial draft, the first part about Audrey was quite long, the second part concerning Samuel was short, followed by an even shorter epilogue. I realized a better balance between the first two parts was needed in order for the film to truly be "bi-polar," like two sides of the same coin, knowing the two parts were quite different...

"Each part presented unique difficulties. In the first part, which could have been called "Angélique or Passion and Energy", all the clues to the intrigue had to be incorporated in such a way as to not make them too obvious to the audience. No one knows yet if this is a suspense film. The risk in using this approach was having the beginning of the film be too classical, almost like a banal love story, because we don't understand the importance of each element. The solution to avoid that was to make it very lively, very fast, to allow me to slip in my clues."

The film is about Erotomania

Erotomania can be defined as a psychological disorder in which the afflicted relentlessly pursues the notion that the object of his/her affection reciprocates his/her romantic feelings and/or fantasies. This obsession with the desired individual continues long after that individual has asserted that he/she is not interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with the afflicted. Consequently, erotomaniacs tend to stalk their victims. It has been postulated that those who stalk suffer from a basic fault in their capacity to have relationships with others. (Lipson et al., 1998).

Though brought to light with the Tarasoff case, Erotomania continues to be considerably new in the literature and consequently little research has been done to suggest any consistent hypothesis as to causality. Characteristic of the erotomaniac (generally across the board) are the following: irrationality, a tendency toward impulsive actions, obsessiveness, paranoia, psychotic tendencies. Typically the erotomaniac shares certain behavioral characteristics consistent with that of a Borderline.

The erotomaniac tends to begin with simple, subtle expressions of affection to reach the object of his/her desire which later spirals out of control and can lead to expressions of anger, rage, frustration and violence when such gestures go ignored and the victims continues to assert lack of interest. Strangely the erotomaniac fails altogether to see the victim's lack of interest. The erotomaniac attributes lack of positive response to a litany of things.

Finally, the erotomaniac is psychotic and no longer in reality. Any reaction from the victim can be construed as a signal of approval. Returning to the case of my stalker, Louise believed the act of my boyfriend taking a restraining order out against her was somehow indicative of encouragement to continue to call and visit him and so she did continue, persisting even after countless arraignments, community service and jail time.

- excerpted from www.angelfire.com

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