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Well, I didn't like the ending!


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It's not essential, but I enjoy movies in which the characters must face and overcome various crises over time. They find the resolve to do so; they learn life lessons. By the time the closing credits roll, they are wiser and better for it (think Now, Voyager).

Romantics Anonymous is cute and funny enough to charm your socks off. Isabelle Carre is perfect as Angelique, repeating confidence-boosting slogans to herself yet still falling twice into a dead faint. But the ending seems to say this: if you are terminally shy, socially inept, 'over-emotional,' you can join a support group. You can see a therapist; listen to self-help tapes. You can even find true love. But none of that does any good. You will never change.

You will still end up running down an empty road as fast as you can. Running away from the social ceremonies that should mark our progress through life. You cannot change.

In a way, the ending seems to confirm what Angelique said to Jean-Ren when she was rejecting him in the support group scene.


Tout homme a deux pays, le sien et puis la France.

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I just finished watching it and I totally agree! The ending is supposed to say what, that they are perfect for each other because they ran away together? If we were supposed to be amused at that ending, it sure didn't work for me.

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You will still end up running down an empty road as fast as you can. Running away from the social ceremonies that should mark our progress through life. You cannot change.

But Angelique and Jean-Rene did change, they were both finally able to accept themselves for who they really were and be loved for it. That's more important than anything. If they had suddenly started ticking all the socially expected boxes and become sensible members of society, I'd have been terribly disappointed.

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Last seen: Les émotifs anonymes (2010) 9/10

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