For those of us who thought Audrey Tautou's character in Amelie was a bit creepy and psychotic, this film makes an interesting, if faintly baffling companion piece, directed by 26-year-old first-timer Laetitia Columbani. Tautou does her gamine act once again in a film that blends Amelie with Fatal Attraction and a touch of The Sixth Sense.

She plays Angelique, a talented art student who is having, or appears to be having, an affair with a successful married cardiologist, played by Samuel Le Bihan. We see her follow him furtively at a party; we see him smiling fondly over her gift of a single rose; we see all sort of besotted trysts. But then, a good way into the movie, everything is rewound and we see everything again from his point of view. It becomes clear that she is a stalker, an "erotomaniac" obsessed with a man who hardly knows she's alive.

Prior to this twist, the movie has been pretty dull, engendering only a niggling impatience for what is obviously going to be a revelation of some sort. But even when the truth is revealed, it has very little dramatic impact and leads to no interesting narrative implications or complications.

There are no further twists or surprises, and no engagement between the two principals; their relationship does not develop, and in fact they have no relationship. She is crazy and, er, that's it. It's a little like Chabrol's L'Enfer, in which mistaken, monomaniacal delusion drives the movie along a single, wearing track. It makes for a very unsatisfying film, lacking in nourishment.