One thing for sure when you sit down to watch this film, you know you are about to watch something original. To my surprise it very much lives up to my expectations, thrusts you into a futuristic world but rather than making the sets slick and glossy they have an almost retro feel and mind you the movie released in 2000.
Pierre-Paul Renders 'Thomas' is a thirty-two-year-old man and has been suffering from acute agoraphobia for some time. He organizes his life around his virtual contacts: online poetry course, bot girlfriend, etc and has never left his apartment, he does not let anyone in, and he communicates with the outside world via a video camera. These experiences have made him lonely, hopeless and tired and from the outset, in a few 5-10 minutes we understand that Thomas's life is poor, without much interest, which revolves above all around an onanist practice of sexual pleasure, if possible spends his free time practicing cybersex. Everything seems like a drag in his life and lives on a pension paid by the insurance company. One day, his psychologist working for the insurance company forces Thomas to sign up for a dating site where he has to meet a real woman as part of therapy. From here the story gets interesting as the director immerses us in the daily life of this Thomas in a direct way. And this, all along, from the subjective point of view of the video camera without ever seeing the face of the main character, Thomas.
Final Thought: For me this is a very human film and the director has managed to take a script that is truly sad and depressive and show it through a compassionate, sympathetic and approachable lens, where every viewer is bound to derive their own conclusion when it ends. To conclude, Thomas is in love is undoubtedly one of the most daring/visionary films of the 2000s (Many years before Orkut, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tinder and others exploded).
Review of Thomas est amoureux
