Love Me If You Dare
2003 ‘Jeux d'Enfants’ Directed by Yann Samuell
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As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another
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Love Me If You Dare is a French romantic-comedy deeply indebted to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie. It shares the same whimsy, nostalgia-fuelled visual flourishes and quirky Gallic sensibility. Unfortunately it is largely devoid of the charm or endearing characters that made Amelie such a hit around the world.
The film follows best friends, Julien and Sophie, from childhood through to their adult life as they continue to play a series of elaborate and often mean spirited games of dare at the total expense of the world around them. Although what starts out as a form of escapism for the two children, one suffering from racist bullying the other fearing for the health of his terminally ill mother, soon morphs into an…
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Δέκα χρόνια μετά εξακολουθεί να λειτουργεί ψυχαναλυτικά για μένα.
Cap ou pas cap, that's the question. -
Tries so desperately to be the next Amelie, yet fails so miserably.
Two people making each other miserable isn't fun when we don't care about the characters and everyone around them is getting hurt. Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have firebrand chemistry (as they should, since they are a couple in real life), but it's not enough to keep the film afloat.
Yann Samuel has that quirky style that is used to great effect in Amelie, but here I didn't like the way it was utilized. It worked rather well in the first third, but Samuel just makes the film weirder and weirder and tops it off with a strange ending that makes no sense, but by that time I didn't really care anymore.
Jeux D'enfants is a disappointment I cannot recommend, unless you're dying to see a dark romance.
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Recently I have embarked on a cinematic education from someone I work with. She is lending me batches of DVDs from around the world, separated by country and theme. The latest of these batches was French Rom Coms. I've seen a few French Rom Coms, mostly Audrey Tautou films, and so when I read the back of Love Me If You Dare, it sounded so unlike what I was used to it easily became the first of the bunch in my watchlist.
The key words on the back I think are "darkly comic" and "fantasy" as the film veers into the absurd at times, and is really rather unusually sinister at times for a film of this nature. These things…
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Everything was brilliant about this apart from the very end, leaving me in too much disappointment to give it the four star rating it was going towards. It's not the fact that it didn't end how I expected it would either, it was just a bit too ludicrous, I feel. As for the rest of the film, it was just lovely. I absolutely love Marion Cotillard in this and her chemistry with Guillaume Canet is beautiful to watch. The story shows a much darker side of love yet it is still bittersweet in many ways. Some of the scenes are quite heartbreaking, but again the end needed to be a lot more captivating for it to end as well as it started.
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Love Me If You Dare is at times infuriating to watch, but you just can't look away. Love isn't all unicorns and rainbows, and this film shows us the darker side as we watch Julien and Sophie turn a whimsical childhood game into something mutually damaging that spans their lifetime. There's a fine line between beauty and destruction, and Love Me If You Dare toes that line on many different levels.
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I saw this years ago in the theatre but was reminded of it again today when discussing the amazing Marion Cotillard. This is a frenetic and deeply strange twist on a love story that is in the storybook tradition of Amelie but doesn't always work as seamlessly as it should. The movie works largely because of its two very engaging leads.
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Fuente de inspiración a tablones de Tuenti, estados de MSN y Fotologs desde 2003.
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Tries so desperately to be the next Amelie, yet fails so miserably.
Two people making each other miserable isn't fun when we don't care about the characters and everyone around them is getting hurt. Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have firebrand chemistry (as they should, since they are a couple in real life), but it's not enough to keep the film afloat.
Yann Samuel has that quirky style that is used to great effect in Amelie, but here I didn't like the way it was utilized. It worked rather well in the first third, but Samuel just makes the film weirder and weirder and tops it off with a strange ending that makes no sense, but by that time I didn't really care anymore.
Jeux D'enfants is a disappointment I cannot recommend, unless you're dying to see a dark romance.
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Love Me If You Dare is a French romantic-comedy deeply indebted to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie. It shares the same whimsy, nostalgia-fuelled visual flourishes and quirky Gallic sensibility. Unfortunately it is largely devoid of the charm or endearing characters that made Amelie such a hit around the world.
The film follows best friends, Julien and Sophie, from childhood through to their adult life as they continue to play a series of elaborate and often mean spirited games of dare at the total expense of the world around them. Although what starts out as a form of escapism for the two children, one suffering from racist bullying the other fearing for the health of his terminally ill mother, soon morphs into an…
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Recently I have embarked on a cinematic education from someone I work with. She is lending me batches of DVDs from around the world, separated by country and theme. The latest of these batches was French Rom Coms. I've seen a few French Rom Coms, mostly Audrey Tautou films, and so when I read the back of Love Me If You Dare, it sounded so unlike what I was used to it easily became the first of the bunch in my watchlist.
The key words on the back I think are "darkly comic" and "fantasy" as the film veers into the absurd at times, and is really rather unusually sinister at times for a film of this nature. These things…
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Τα πρώτα της 40 λεπτά είναι φανταστικά.
Μετά λειτουργεί ως generator αναμνήσεων δικών σου παιχνιδιών. -
Original love story. Sad, funny, crazy and romantic... all flowing together in the same broth, drink it in and be amazed by this interesting French cocktail of a movie:)
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Δέκα χρόνια μετά εξακολουθεί να λειτουργεί ψυχαναλυτικά για μένα.
Cap ou pas cap, that's the question. -
Amelie-esque but not as good. About a couple who are in love but also quite mean to each other. The end is perplexing.