À la folie... pas du tout is the first film by Lætitia Colombani, who is now better known as a writer. Essentially the film is in two parts, the first being from the point of view of Angélique (Audrey Tautou), a young student of fine arts in love with cardiologist Loïc Le Garrec (Samuel Le Bihan), who is married with a pregnant wife. She sends Loïc presents anonymously and doesn't listen to the reason of those around her, particularly her friends Héloïse (Sophie Guillemin) and David (Clément Sibony), who's in love with her. She waits at the airport for a trip to Italy with Loïc, but he doesn't turn up. She goes home, lies on the floor and turns on the gas.
And then things change dramatically as we see the situation from Loïc's point of view. Loïc starts receiving presents but doesn't know from whom, although the situation is driving a wedge between him and his wife, and both are deeply affected psychologically by Angélique's behaviour. Loïc believes that another woman is the cause of the trouble, becomes angry with her, but she dies of a heart attack, the police suspecting him of murder. Meanwhile Loïc's wife has a miscarriage: Angélique saw a baby as a threat to her imagined relationship with Loïc. Here lies the basic problem: there is no relationship and Loïc is totally unaware of the existence of Angélique.
Angélique lives in a nearby house and the surgeon does his best to help a young woman who madly loves him but whom he doesn't know, and she is taken to hospital. Loïc realises that Angélique is his loving tormentor, tells her there's nothing between them, and she knocks him out and is taken to a psychiatric hospital. Lost in translation of the title in English, even though it's literal, is the word 'folie'.
If this were a true story of course, the orderly chipping off the art brut that Angélique has made – a figure of Loïc made out of the medication she didn't take – would be an act of huge vandalism.
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