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Love Me If You DareSnagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! Love Me If You Dare starring: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe directed by: Yann Samuell  Price: £79.89 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5039036019798 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Label: Ugc Films Languages: Manufacturer: Ugc Films Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Ugc Films Region Code: 2 Release Date: February 07, 2005 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Ugc Films Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Pretentious twaddleBilled as a "darkly comic romantic fantasy" I thought this might be a good film but I was sorely disappointed. A boy and girl with troubled home lives dare each other to do things, with a box being handed over to the one completing the dare and the box owner being the one to set the next dare. Mildly amusing and interesting when done as children but when it continues through adulthood it's evidence of two people needing psychiatric treatment especially as most of the dares are cruel and depressing. The couple are totally wrapped up in themselves and the need to torture each other with ridiculous dares, presenting strong sociopathic (in the strict medical sense) traits and totally precluding any actual romance or comedy. In fact the only thing that made me laugh was the ridiculous ending which was even more pretentious than the rest of the film if that's possible and attempted to portray the characters' self-centred behaviour as romantic and even aspirational. I don't like to give up on a film part-way through so I sat through the whole thing silently willing these two people to die terribly amusing and painful deaths or, failing that, to grow up, realise that there are other people and problems in the world apart from themselves and their stupid dares and start becoming likeable human beings. So unfortunately I found no romance, no humour apart from the, presumably, unintentionally hilarious ending and nothing even remotely likeable about the characters. Rating:  - Love Me If You Dare (Les Jeux d'Enfants)A delightfully original romance, beautifully directed by Yann Samuell. At times hilarious, at other times poignant it follows the relationship between Sophie (Marion Cotillard) and Julien (Guillaume Canet) from childhood to adulthood. Both wracked by heartache in their troubled young lives, they become close friends, setting each other a series of dares, which grow more outlandish with their advancing years. As they start to fall in love they hide their true feelings by setting each other more dangerous challenges and become swept along on a crazy, passionate journey to destruction. By the end of the film there is a sense of completeness - that it has come full circle - and the final scene stimulates the viewer's imagination to reflect on whether it represents reality, fantasy or some wonderful afterlife in which true love is eternal. Superbly acted by the two leading characters - both as children and as adults - this unique film was a joy to watch. Perhaps I'm splitting hairs - but I can't see why the title of the film shouldn't have remained faithful to the French (Children's Games.) Rating: - A roundabout love storyA nihilist fairytale of love, loss, and self-destructive - or is it self-creative - game play. Inevitably compared to 'Amelie' (it's French, it has a comic book, farcical quality), with an introduction I've seen compared to that of 'Sunset Boulevard', 'Love Me if You Dare' was originally titled 'Jeux d'Enfants' - children's games - and features a merry-go-round toy which the central characters exchange each time it is their turn to dictate the next move. What begins as a game played by two children escalates into a game of childish dares which can either be seen as outlandish, outrageous tragedy, or as an existential comedy in which two young people grow into adulthood steadfastly refusing to be confined by the social identities demanded of them by both convention and normative sensibilities. Julien is facing the extinction of his family and identity when his mother is discovered to be terminally ill. His friend, Sophie, is meanwhile being subjected to racist abuse (she's Polish), and is enduring a home life which is less than an idyll. Robbed of the innocence of childhood, the pair feel they are damned as outsiders. They retaliate by indulging in an escalating campaign of dares, each seeking to force the other to renege from the challenge. This is extreme roleplay: it is Luke Rhinehart's 'Dice Man' taken to an exponential degree, for their actions are not random, but personally contrived and obligated, and therefore beyond the bounds of probability. Julien and Sophie rule one another's lives. No one else has any control over them. They are, and they remain, outcasts. But, no matter how hard they strive to assert themselves in the face of the world and refuse to obey its rules, they cannot escape the rules of the game by which they create themselves. They are caught up in the very merry-go-round which symbolises their pact. Writer and Director Yann Samuell's film is consciously cynical and aims to shock ... or at least confuse its audience. The actions of the couple are comic, frightening, disquieting. There's a part of all of us which wants to step outside the boundaries, which admires the maverick, the spontaneous, the dissenter, the eccentric, even the lunatic; but there's an even larger part which is terrified of attracting the wrong attention and being stared at. It's that nightmare of being naked in class. We each need to belong, to have a reference group to which we subscribe and to whose rules we adhere. So what happens if the reference group is only two people and they have the power to unmake the rules as they go along? Samuell wrote the story after his in-laws were killed by a speeding driver who had decided to randomly crash his car into an oncoming vehicle; it happened to be the one containing two people dear to Samuell. How do you go on being rational in life after something beyond the bounds happens? These are the sorts of questions 'Jeux d'Enfants' poses. The acting is excellent - young Sophie (played by Joséphine Lebas-Joly) is outstanding. You can believe in the insane dynamic in which the characters find themselves. Comic book images and montages are shuffled together with more conventional editing and narrative techniques to create that distant-from-reality atmosphere - hence the comparison with 'Amelie'. But this is not a gentle film, nor a heart warming one. These are not characters with whom you can unreservedly sympathise. For each laugh there is a parallel disturbing moment, moments when you feel gut-wrenching embarrassment, even anger. It is not a film which everyone will enjoy. It is certainly not a film which everyone will like. It is certainly a film many will loathe. But it's entertaining, it's thought provoking, and it's a film you really should see ... if only because of its ironic mockery of narrative convention and the nature of the love story. Rating: - love me if you dareThis is an amazing film. Maybe it's because i empathised so much with the ideas in it, but it is a work of genius. Shot in a similar style as Amelie but with darker tones. the little girl, Joséphine Lebas-Joly, i hope goes on to be on our screen for years. I haven't seen many films since the weight of the world crushed my fragile little spirit that I have connected with, eternal sunshine, vanilla sky, amelie and now i have another film to give me hope. thanks for making it. Rating: - Quirky and fun.This film is great. It's funny, looks nice (French film- pretty colours! Also fit actors.), quirky and just generally entertaining. It's a bit like a rom-com but obviously more bizarre. I don't know any French but you soon forget that you're reading subtitles. It's not at all hard to watch so you don't need to put it on your worthy films list. Just see it if you fancy something entertaining but a bit different.  Try searching the Internet for "Love Me If You Dare" or Ebay for "Love Me If You Dare". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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