Amazon.com: A huge hit in France, Love Me if You Dare takes the traditional l'amour fou scenario and runs it through a pinball machine. From childhood, Julien and Sophie engage in an obsessive battle of one-upmanship: if one of them hands a brightly colored candy tin to the other and makes a dare, the recipient is bound to honor it, no matter how destructive or dangerous the dare might be. When this wacky habit enters adulthood and begins wrecking their lives, they ought to change... but that's not how l'amour fou works. Part Amelie-style comedy, part dark fable, this movie has quirkiness to burn, if not always as much charm as it thinks it has. Leads Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard are ardent, although somewhat out-acted by their juvenile counterparts in the film's early section. If you're curious about what would've happened to Amelie if she took her obsession to its logical conclusion, hop aboard. --Robert Horton
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Rating: - End it before it ends!
The excellent short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger goes on one page too long. So, when I reread it. . .and I do. . .I quit the story with Sybil and Seymour coming ashore from their afternoon swim. It is true Seymour--it is his fate as the most gifted poet in the Glass family--must die. But not here.
Likewise, "Love Me If You Dare (Are You Game?)" should end sooner. And, when I watch it again. . .and I plan to because, for a while it is a great movie: charming and moving at the beginning, edgy and true in the middle. . .I will stop it early into chapter 9 as the ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing movie
This movie is truly great. The story, cinematography, and direction completely blew me away when I first saw it.
Rating: - "Teddies Aren't Usually Made of Tin ..."
It's a revealing moment when Sergei Nimovitch groans that "something is stabbing [him] in the back" and digs the carousel-tin out of the couch cushion. When he lovingly mutters that it's Sophie's "teddy" and she replies with the above line, we know that love (for Sophie) is not soft and gentle but hard and painful. And the "stabbing in the back" bit ... priceless.
Yann Samuell breaks "Jeux d'enfants" into four segments: "Game," "Set," "Match," and "Dares of Dares." The segments grow progressively darker when puckish pranks turn to sadistic challenges. These plotted, breathtaking moments ... Read More
Rating: - Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet with a modern twist
Jeux d'enfants is the story of the game of truth or dare - a metaphorical representation of the games people play in love. The games (jeux) begin when Julien and Sophie are children (enfants), but as they grow older they intensify and become more twisted and dangerous.
Although they are very much in love with each other, they let the game dictate their future, and the dare even goes as far as hurting and tricking each other.
The cinematography is fantastic and the director manages to capture the ravages of the undeclared and unconsummated love. A daring lesson of love handled ... Read More
Rating: - A love story with a dark twist and spice of life
This movie makes you want to pull off the mane of a mundane life and love living like crazy. The playful, love relationship between the two main characters is stricken with misunderstanding and confounded by their game of dare. The acting is solid and ending is unexpected. I like it.
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