Product Description

In this gleeful, bawdy sex comedy, Francois, a balding, downtrodden office worker tells the gorgeous prostitute, Daniela (Monica Bellucci), that he's won the lottery and invites her home to spend his money. The ensuing negotiations of cat-and-mouse are played out with verve and wit by both, and by a supporting cast of vicariously engaged friends and neighbors, including Gerard Depardieu as Monica Bellucci's bedraggled mobster boyfriend, Charly.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39150 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-12-04
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 95 minutes

Customer Reviews

Sultry Monica at her best!
Checklist...Monica Bellucci main role (check), Monica intense kissing scene (check), Monica as a call girl (check), Monica nude (check), Monica sex scene (check), Monica in bed (check), Monica bellissima (check), Monica in Italian (check), Monica in French (check), Monica in love (check)...10/10

No seriously this is a interesting film where a man tries to buy Monica, and convince her to leave her life as a parisan escort and fall in love with him. It got its funny moments & intense moments,...needless to say the pimp boss doesn't like the idea...lol. Would you? One of Monica's newer film releases. I seen available versions in French, Italian & Spanish. I bought this while in Italia last year, the Italian version was called "Per Sesso o Per Amore"..simply translated "For Sex or For Love"

"What Is Happiness?"
Note: French with English subtitles.

Synopsis: Francois (Bernard Campan), a lonely middle-aged man with a weak heart enters a bordello one evening with his eyes transfixed to one particular hooker. Her name is Daniela (Monica Bellucci). He claims to have won the lottery and offers Daniela a large sum of money if she would come and live with him. As the two strangers get to know each other soon their financial agreement takes on emotional consequences that neither could have suspected. Before long their entanglement grows to encompass Francois friends, neighbors and work acquaintances as well as people, some significant, from Daniela's past.

Critique: `How Much Do You Love Me' is a rather odd but enjoyable combination of erotica, romance and dark comedy rolled into one. While the viewer may find it difficult to decide exactly what genre the film is best suited for when all is said and done I would expect that they enjoyed watching. Monica Bellucci does what she does best as she subtly moves back and forth from sullen and smoldering to volcanic eruption. Bernard Campan also delivers a strong performance and there's also a small but memorable role played by one of France's finest actors, Gerard Depardieu.

Monica Bellucci is reason enough to see this film.
Monica Bellucci (Irreversible; The Passion of the Christ) saves this 2005 French film whenever it teeters on the edge of disaster. Written and directed by Bertrand Blier, How Much Do You Love Me? (Combien tu m'aimes?) stars Bellucci, Bernard Campan, and Gérard Depardieu in an unlikely romantic comedy that tells the off-center story of a lonely Paris office clerk, François (Campan), who goes to a "hooker bar" in Pigalle to offer a beautiful prostitute, Daniela (Bellucci), 100,000 Euros a month to live with him until his money runs out. To get her attention, François tells Daniela he has just won the lottery and has millions to spend on her. After staying with him for eight days, Daniela loses interest and decides to return to her her pimp "husband," Charly (Depardieu), mostly because he has "a big one." However, she continues to think about François, who made her feel modest again.

Monica Bellucci melts the screen with her stunning physical charms. This movie is at its best when the camera is fixed on her, even when Bellucci is only taking off her shoes. This is a minor but colorful French film, and Monica Bellucci makes it easy to forgive this film for its many faults.

G. Merritt