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''Don't Look Back'', aka ''Ne Te Retourne Pas'', is a 2009 French arthouse film.
 
Jeanne, a married mother of two, starts noticing small changes to her surroundings. Each time something changes, everyone she asks says it has always been that way, leading Jeanne to wonder whether things really are changing or whether she's going crazy. Combining newly appearing clues with her inconsistent memories, Jeanne sets off on a [[Quest for Identity]] to find out the truth.
 
'''Don't Look Back'', aka' ('''Ne Tete Retourneretourne Paspas''',) is a 2009 French arthousethriller film.
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Jeanne, a married mother of two, starts noticing small changes to her surroundings. Each time something changes, everyone she asks says it has always been that way, leading Jeanne to wonder whether things really are changing or whether she's going crazy. Combining newly appearing clues with her inconsistent memories, Jeanne sets off on a [[Quest for Identity]] to find out the truth.
 
Not to be confused with [[Don't Look Back (1967 film)|the 1967 documentary]] about [[Bob Dylan]].
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* [[Boat Lights]]: Sported by characters midway through their transformations.
* [[Body Horror]]
* [[Brother -Sister Incest]]: Jeanne and Gianni have reason to suspect that they're related. Doesn't stop them for but a moment. {{spoiler|And it turns out they are.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Bastard]]}}: {{spoiler|Rosa Maria was born from an extramarital affair. It's why her mother gave her away.}}
* [[Loss of Identity]]: The changes lead Jeanne to start wondering if her life is actually real or if she's actually insane.
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* {{spoiler|[[Split Personality Merge]]}}: A possible interpretation of the plot. {{spoiler|Eight-year-old Rosa Maria's personality has been locked away ever since the car crash. In the process of writing her book, Jeanne begins unlocking those memories and merging them with her own. When she mistakes Rosa Maria's memories of the past with her memories of the present, it seems the world has "transformed from what it used to look like" when it's actually her own memories which have changed.}}
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]
* [[Trauma -Induced Amnesia]]: Jeanne can't remember anything about her life before a traumatic car crash when she was eight years old.
 
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