The movie's hyperactivity eventually yields to such revelations as Life Isn't a Game and The Biggest Dare Is Love, but the ultimate measure of its conventionality is its soundtrack.
Love Me If You Dare(Jeux d'enfants)
France, Belgium · 2003
Rated R · 1h 33m
Director Yann Samuell
Starring Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Joséphine Lebas-Joly
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children – a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and dangerous stunts. While they often act out to relieve each other’s pain, the pair slowly realize that their game might be a way to avoid their true feelings.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Much of the style strains too hard to be cute, but true romantics may shed copious tears of sympathy and empathy.
The rueful ghost of François Truffaut hovers over writer-director Yann Samuell's wonderfully capricious tale of Gallic lovers with no idea of when to say finis.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A perversely dark romantic comedy shot and edited in the contemporary fairy-tale style of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amélie." But this one has a dagger for a heart.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
If you like romantic movies but find Hollywood's increasingly sterile formulas to be a poisonous bore, Love Me if You Dare offers an antidote.
The film's attempts at meaning do it in. The longer it goes on and the darker it grows, the further it drifts from any kind of human experience, outside of its protagonists' particular flavor of madness.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
The film is loaded with striking visuals, high energy and all-stops portrayals from its actors, but for all of Samuell's imaginative cinematic bravura, it is, finally, mainly exasperating. Phooey on Julien and Sophie's excruciating l'amour fou.
Valiant attempt to create a modern fairytale ends up being frustratingly creepy instead of haunting and memorable.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The award for the most annoying character to appear in a movie so far this year turns out to be a tie: It goes to both of the oh-so-swankly tormented romantic mischief makers of Love Me if You Dare.
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