La demoiselle d'honneur (The Bridesmaid) (2004)

This is probably going to be the last French movie I ever watch. I didn't really like it. I'll stick with the movies in Spanish, I think those are better.

This movie was really like anti-climatic? I guess is the word I'm looking for. Nothing amazing or spectacular happens and you don't see anything happen either. The movie is about a boy and a girl who fall in love- like hardcore love- within a few hours. After like a 1 day relationship they are inseparable and fucking each other every night. The girl is obviously a freak because she talks nonsense and makes up a bunch of stories (which we never find out if they are true or not) like her past jobs, her family life, etc. After a week of their relationship they are madly in love and the girl tells him that he needs to kill someone to prove his love to her. He's caught off guard and laughs it off like it's a joke. Later, he picks up the paper and sees someone was murdered, so he tells the girl he's the one that killed the dead guy (even though he really didn't). She believes him and is oddly fascinated with the murder and wants to know every detail. After she sees he "killed" for her, she decides to do the same and actually goes through with it. Then she tells him she murdered someone else a while back and still has the body, so she's got issues. The movie ends once the boy finds out about the murders, and he realizes their both in deep shit.

The movie doesn't have many settings, which was boring for me. The movie mainly took place in the girl's apartment and the boy's house. I really needed a change of scenery because it was getting so boring seeing them in the same places. I guess that's kind of irrelevant, but it made me dislike the film even more so than I already did.

The characters really annoyed me. The girl obviously is a schizo or has some kind of mental disorder, and the boy probably does also. He falls so hard for the girl and fucks her before he even really knows her name, then he sleeps with a stone statue and....it's weird. He seems to have a solid head on his shoulders at the beginning, but after he meets the girl he does a complete 180.

Anyway, I really didn't like this film mainly because there was no action and there were a lot of questions that probably should have been answered, but weren't. You realize the girl is a psycho, but you never know any of her history it's all a mystery. Everyone the boy asks about her gives sketchy/hazy information, so we're never sure just what her story is. Then at the end, the boy sees the person that the girl killed weeks prior, and tries to get the girl out of the house. The girl however, doesn't want to leave and they go lie down on the bed in the basement where they hear the cops knocking on the door. The movie ends as the boy tells the girl "I'll never leave you". Pretty sappy/boring/disappointing ending ever. I wanted to know what happened afterwards, but the movie ended quite abruptly. I respect what the director was trying to do here, but I kind of hated this film. 90% is way overrated, maybe I just can't appreciate the psychological thriller he was attempting to create, but there was nothing thrilling about it.