You don't think it's a good film because she died?
I don't think it's very good because it's all about HIM...it was intended to be a love story(love stories require joint-protagonists) and the Helene character was just left out totally...For all I know she could have been having an affair with the mailman and the whole letter writing thing was a last sadistic hurrah because she knew she as dying and she wanted to make him feel guilty for the rest of his life for getting a little AZN poontang on the side.
