Smile, c'était écrit

Why an English title for a French movie?;it's all the more annoying since the subtitle sounds better in the French language. It's also a most adequate title, since the borders of imaginary and reality are blurred;the girl alone in her bed is really a good trick and puts a question mark over the whole movie."Smile ",on the other hand , is a poor main title. It makes the final scientific explanation overkill ; keeping things vague would have been a better choice .

The first time I've watched it ,I fell asleep halfway through. But I decided to give the movie a second chance and it deserved it.

A treatment a la Polanski in its first hour, it only turns horror in its last third where the "delirious episodes " (2% of the population reportedly suffers from it ) take their toll , where the principal obviously opts for the umpteenth imitation of Anthony Perkins in "Psycho" : hasn't he childhood traumas too (in the prologue )?

A series of bizarre details, of strange warnings creep into an apparently normal life : although the visit to the good friends may be just out from of a "feel good" movie, cracks appear in the mirror: the masks, the boar blood on the windshield (not seen but told,and it's better that way) ,the teenager in the shack who talks too an imaginary(?) friend;Even the scenes in the editor office retains something offbeat .