Description: LOVE ME IF YOU DARE depicts the romantic story of Julian and Sophie, who meet in grade school and create an intense game of "Dare" to distract them from the harsh realities of their lives. Over time their game becomes a mutual infatuation that binds them for life. Ultimately the childhood game remains with them into adulthood where it challenges their most cherished fantasies. Eventually, each of them is forced to decide between the game and genuine romance.
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: - Suprising
I was reluctant to watch this film at first, and let me say, I was an idiot!
The movie is wonderfully directed, beautifully acted, and well written as well as creative.
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 ... 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" ... 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 ... Read More
- Suprising
- End it before it ends!