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Holy Fatma’s Please Love Me Forever takes place in a surreal world. Lili (Isabelle Carlean-Jones), a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her 50-year-old mother, Claudie (Annick Christiaens), who overprotects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance, Lili dreams of Lyesse (Carl Malapa), her 16-year-old handsome neighbor whom she is in love with. What will happen when Lyesse finds out out Lilli feels?
The Colors
Holy Fatma (The Devil Doesn’t Speak French 2017) was able to create a hauntingly beautiful world in just 28 minutes. The color palettes are stunning and jump drastically from calm pale pastel colors to dark, harsh neons. The pale colors represent calm and happy times, as when Lilli sees Lyesse and the screen is all light blues and pinks. However, when we see Claudie, the colors turn darker to blacks, dark greens and dark blues. When Lilli is in her mother’s lab, it was all harsh neon blues and greens.
The Story
As far as the story goes, Please Love Me Forever is simple yet effective. Young Lilli is an outcast and is kept in her house by her mother, Claudie, a woman is obsessed with trying to stay young by changing out her parts such as her noes and lips. Lilli also has an obsession, but unlike her mother, it’s not with trying to keep her youth. No, all Lilli wants is to love, and she is obsessed with her young, handsome neighbor, Lyesse, who just wants to be her friend.
Lilli finally trusts Lyesse enough to allow him into her home. It’s there where she shows him her “Love” wall, which she has created over the last few months and consists of pictures of Lyesse, who becomes freaked out and tries to leave. A fight follows. When Lyesse is hurt, both Lilli and Claudie react in a most literal way. All in all, Please Love Me Forever is a great story that reminds me of Frankenstein. The film is still very good and worth a watch.
This film is very entertaining and is overall visually beautiful to look at. PopHorror readers, I hope you enjoyed this little piece on Please Love Me Forever and I hope you take a look at it.
