Really good - overlooked.

I agree.. I really enjoyed it.

I thought it was a great combo of good directing, camera shots and music. I think the story could have been done a little better, but none the less I liked it.

I liked it too, for what it was!

I agree, this is underestimated movie, while actually it opens a kind of new genre, almost something like the Piano Teacher. It is a bit confusing at certain points, and it seems it did have some ambitions that were not entirely fulfilled, but it is much more interesting than it looks from the spoilers. The problem is that the movie was pushed into the category of "fatal attraction movies", where one of the partners is a psycho, and the other wants to get away, or "Single White Female", which is, in spite of good acting, just one dimensional movie about cute hetero girl who encounters a sick murderer, who happens to be after her. Both of these films are totally far away from this French movie.

Je te mangerais is about real mutual attraction. The pianist who is seemingly trying to stop it, is just actually trying to control this uncontrollable attraction to Ema, fascinating and mentally unstable girl, who is actually being very constructive to the pianist life and studying, in spite of being unpredictable and intrusive. There are hints in the movie that they were kind very interested in each other since they were children, just they grew up separately. It is, in short, about two people who are taking their sexual energy in different ways. The pianist is trying to handle it rationally, to direct her sexual potentials towards playing music, and not to another human being. At the time when she gets involved with Ema sexually, she cannot play at all, consumption of such a passionate encounter takes away all her inner energy for playing. In order to be able to play, she has to restrain from sex with Ema, although she wants to be around her, and not only because it is materially convenient. Ema sees it differently, her love interest is to posses the pianist physically, and that is the source of all conflict between them. The pianist believes that their weird relationship could work that way, with conscious restraining from sex, while Ema cannot really live with that. It is a very fresh view at non-heteronormative type of relationships, which are usually going around these plots: one is in love, the other is not; they are in love, but family is against; they are in love, and in the end they stay together. This movie ads a new dimension to it, like, even non-hetero people can be in love, but in an unfortunate way, independently from homophobia around them.

So, in general, this is very interesting movie, and I am glad someone has noticed that too, that it was overlooked by the audience and critics, and that it did deserve a better reception.