How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)

An ordinary clerk hire a gorgeous prostitute for a one night. When that night is over, he didn't want to let her go. She agrees to stay with him, but her boss is not.

Director:

Bertrand Blier

Writer:

Bertrand Blier

Stars:

Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gérard Depardieu

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Monica Bellucci	...	Daniela
Bernard Campan	...	François
Gérard Depardieu	...	Charly
Jean-Pierre Darroussin	...	André Migot
Edouard Baer	...	L'homme bouleversé
Farida Rahouadj	...	La voisine
Sara Forestier	...	Muguet
Michel Vuillermoz	...	Le toubib
François Rollin	...	Michael
Jean Barney	...	Garde du corps 1
Baptiste Roussillon	...	Garde du corps 2
Jean Dell	...	Homme du cimetière
Michaël Abiteboul	...	Collègue François
Fabienne Chaudat	...	Collègue François
Thomas Badek	...	Le voisin

Storyline

In Paris, after winning the lottery, the clerk François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to the prostitute Daniela to live with him until the end of his money. François is a lonely man, with heart problems and Daniela stays with him for eight days. Then, she decides to come back to her man, the mobster Charly, but she misses François and returns to his place. But once a whore, always a whore.

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Plot Keywords:

love triangle | prostitute | sex | sex talk | lottery winner | 

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Taglines:

French Director Bertrand Blier creates an intensely seductive story about beauty, sex and Love.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [France] Pan-Européenne [France]

Country:

Italy France

Language:

French

Release Date:

26 October 2005 (France)

Also Known As:

How Much Do You Love Me?

Filming Locations:

France

Box Office

Budget:

€10,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fidélité Productions, BIM Distribuzione, France 2 Cinéma

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bertrand Blier: first customer of the prostitute who wants to go to Seychelles (Muguet).

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Goofs

When Francois' neighbour overhears Daniela, she is in an apartment to the left of Francois' apartment as seen from outside. However when she comes to complain, she comes from the left-hand apartment as seen from the corridor. whereas it should be the right hand apartment

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Soundtracks

Moniebah
Composed by Abdullah Ibrahim

User Reviews

You'll love Monica Bellucci too after seeing this film

"How Much Do You Love Me?" revolves around Monica Bellucci's character Daniela and the many different female roles she changes into and out of like so many pieces of clothing. She is definitely a whore and a seductress, but she may or may not also be a girlfriend, a wife, a mistress, an accomplice, and a scam artist. She is at times domineering but at others submissive and weak; at times jealously possessive but at others open and free; at times quiet and pensive but at others loud and raucous. It takes a while for all these different sides of Daniela to appear, but by the end of the film she is changing between them seemingly in the blink of an eye.

Few characters in the movie can resist falling for one or more sides of Daniela, and the audience too will fall in love with the performance Monica Bellucci gives in the role. It certainly helps that Monica has the beauty and the body to pull of the role, and she is not shy about sharing her voluptuous charms with the camera. In one scene she even instructs us on how she is able to seduce her target, and it is clear that Monica Bellucci knows how to use her considerable female attributes.

The other strong performance in "How Much Do You Love Me?" comes from legendary French actor Gerard Depardieu. Depardieu's character does not appear until the second half of the film, well after all the other main characters have been introduced, but Depardieu instantly captures the attention of the audience. He has played many different characters in his career, and in "How Much Do You Love Me?" he looks like he was born to play the role of an amoral gangster.

The main problem I had with "How Much Do You Love Me?" is that the action starts off slowly, and what is billed as a comedy feels like a depressive drama during the first third of the film. As it turns out it takes a while for director and writer Bertrand Blier to set the stage, and the action picks up considerably in the second two thirds of the film. "How Much Do You Love Me?" never turns into a slapstick farce; instead, it is ultimately a sophisticated adult comedy about the different roles women can assume. While being entertaining it also raises some interesting questions about just what the differences and boundaries are between those roles.