How Much Do You Love Me? () is a 2005 romantic comedy film written and directed by Bertrand Blier. It was released on 26 October 2005 in France and Belgium, and had a limited theatrical release in the United States on 18 March 2006. It was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where Blier won the Silver George for Best Director.

Plot

François, bored with his lonely life in Paris and dull office job, goes to a bar and meets Daniela, a beautiful Italian prostitute. Telling her he has won millions on the lottery, he says he will pay her 100,000 euros a month to live with him until his money runs out. She agrees but André, his friend and doctor, warns them his weak heart will not cope with an energetic sex life. After a meal at a restaurant, Daniela goes down with food poisoning and André, called to attend her, has a stroke and dies at the sight of her voluptuous naked body.

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Coming home one day, François finds Daniela gone. At the bar where they met, he learns she has resumed her old trade. He picks up a pretty young prostitute named Muguet, which leads Daniela to confess that she had another man all along, a gangster named Charly who has reclaimed his woman. Since she says she loves François, Charly offers to sell her back to him for four million euros. After long negotiation, François refuses. Unhappy however at life with the coarse Charly, Daniela sneaks back to François' flat, only to find him in bed with his sexy North African neighbour.

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Not having seen him for a long time, François' friends from his office turn up and a wild party starts. Daniela, ever a free spirit, disappears for a turn with a handsome man. Charly turns up with a gun, looking for Daniela, and is taken with François' neighbour. François admits that he never won the lottery and couldn't have paid Daniela. The film ends with the two together again.

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Cast

Monica Bellucci as Daniela de Montmartre

Bernard Campan as François

Gérard Depardieu as Charly

Jean-Pierre Darroussin as André Migot

Sara Forestier as Muguet

François Rollin as Michael

Michel Vuillermoz as the doctor

Édouard Baer as the upset man

Valérie Karsenti as François's colleague

Michaël Abiteboul as François's colleague

Fabienne Chaudat as François's colleague

Jean Dell as the cemetery man

References

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2005 films

2005 romantic comedy films

2000s French films

2000s French-language films

2000s Italian films

Films about prostitution in Paris

Films directed by Bertrand Blier

Films produced by Marc Missonnier

Films produced by Olivier Delbosc

French romantic comedy films

French-language Italian films

Italian romantic comedy films

Pan-Européenne films

Wild Bunch (company) films