At first I thought it was a nice comedy, then it became too... I don't know, the word perverse comes to mind. Let me explain, it starts nicely, with hairdresser Emilie (Audrey Tautou) that receives an anonimous love letter, but she's not moved by it much. On the contrary, what does she do with it? She gives it to her mother Maddy ( Nathalie Baye), a beautiful lady who is kind of depressed because her husband left her. Emilie makes her believe that it was written for her, hoping this would cheer her up, and then she starts writing new letters to her herself. She asks Jean ( Sami Bouajila), a guy working at her shop, to deliver them. When Maddy sees him, she convinces herself that he's her secret admirer, and funnily enough he did write the first letter, because he's secretly in love with Emilie! Not knowing this, Emilie wants him to play along, pretending to be her mother's admirer and date her. In a way she meant well, because her mother was feeling lonely and not herself, so she gave her something to cheer her up. It stopped being nice fun when they turned this film into a soap-opera TheBoldAndTheBeautiful-style, with mom and daughter with the same guy. I may be old school, but I don't like this kind of things. Making him sleep with the mother and then end up with the daughter.. no sorry but I don't like it. What's more, he's the victim in all this, because the two women decided everything themselves! The poor guy was in love with Emilie the whole time, wrote her that nice love letter, and was treated like a gigolò, forced to be one.
I know it's a French film, so they probably have a different way of looking at this things, a "who cares? let's do it" kind of attitude towards sex, but still the fact that the mother would sleep with Jean to get back at them both, after knowing that it was all a lie, was sick. I see no reason for ever watching this again.
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