I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)

	Directed by: Billy Hopkins	COUNTRY USA Genre Drama/Romance NORWEGIAN TITLE Elsker, elsker ikke RUNNING TIME 89 minutes
	Produced by: Joe Caracciolo, Jr John Fielder Mark Tarlov
	Written by: Wendy Kesselman

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Daisy	Claire Danes
Nana	Jeanne Moreau
Ethan	Jude Law

Review

This Billy Hopkins movie, produced in Europe, looks and is told more in the mould of a Scandinavian youth film than a traditional Hollywood movie. It's beautifully shot, old-fashionedly romantic, and lacks the typical "hipness" of many of its contemporaries. Unfortunately, it's also a muddled tale in which the moral dubiousness of WWII is discussed a little awkwardly, sometimes with strange motivation, such as when the Daisy character's instability is traced back to her grandmother's situation during the war. Still, the relationship between these two characters is the film's best asset. Jeanne Moreau gives a charismatic, wholehearted performance as the grandmother, and together with Claire Danes, she creates some of the film's finest moments. The young and talented Jude Law is equally good, making the performances the most pleasant aspect of I Love You, I Love You Not. While the film has some wonderfully evocative and beautifully romantic scenes, Wendy Kesselman's script also leads us into some moralising segments and dream sequences, which ultimately render the film preachy and showy.