There’s part of me completely amazed by how much I love this movie, considering the slutty behaviour displayed – or at least reported – by Vanessa Paradis’ character early on. I don’t know, maybe it’s just ‘cos it’s Vanessa, but while normally this would be a total turn off for me, here this only makes me laugh my ass off and love the character more somehow. I think it’s the way she genuinely seems unable to control her behaviour, and she has such an honest philosophy about it – “His heart was beating – I get that too, I needed someone to hug,” she tells knife-thrower, fairy, father figure, lover, Daniel Auteuil, when he finds her disgracing herself once more in a train toilet cabin later on.

This is one of my absolute favourite films … the sexiest movie I have ever seen, so utterly French, from the black and white photography to Patrice Leconte’s part-Jean-Luc Godard, part-Coco-Chanel-ad (or maybe that’s just the Vanessa talking again) direction. Not to mention the wonderful use of Marianne Faithful’s “Who Will Take My Dreams Away?” I can’t think of a movie that turns me on nearly as much as this one does during the knife-throwing scenes. It makes me tingle and want to express myself like Roberto “I want to make love to all of you” Benigni, lol. I want to make love to this movie, it’s beautiful.

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