I Love You, I Love You Not

I Love You, I Love You Not is a quiet drama about the young girl Daisy, who has problems with love and not least with her Jewish identity. Daisy attends a posh school and is both pretty and bright, but like most people in their teens she wants to feel normal. In her eyes that means being WASP, but she cannot let go of her Jewish background, for she loves her Jewish grandmother Nana more than anything in the world. Nana is more of a mother and father to her than her parents have ever been.

The miracle happens when the school's best-looking, most intelligent and sweetest boy falls for her. Ethan is the epitome of normality, but gradually it dawns on the audience, and to a lesser extent on the blinded Daisy, that Ethan may not deserve the status of dream guy. His childish friends think Daisy is too intense, too serious, and so Ethan does too. In the end Daisy also seems to understand that it is perhaps no great misfortune that Ethan has broken up with her.

The film's narrative structure is unusual, because the present-day action takes place almost entirely over twenty-four hours at the grandmother's, where Daisy tells of and recalls her earlier experiences. At times the structure works well, but mostly it confuses.