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Games of Love and Chance (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 17

Fresh: 13

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 6.8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Aug 26, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: Abdel Kechiche's second feature, after the celebrated BLAME IT ON VOLTAIRE, firmly establishes the actor-turned-director as a major presence in world cinema. A grittily realistic portrait of life... Abdel Kechiche's second feature, after the celebrated BLAME IT ON VOLTAIRE, firmly establishes the actor-turned-director as a major presence in world cinema. A grittily realistic portrait of life in a downtrodden Parisian housing project, GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE exhilaratingly captures the tumultuous ups-and-downs of adolescence. Krimo (Osman Elkharraz) is a tough-minded teenager who yearns for the day when his father will be released from prison. After breaking up with his girlfriend, Krimo begins to fall for the luminous Lydia (Sara Forestier), who he has known his whole life but has only begun to see in a romantic light. In order to get closer to Lydia, Krimo risks humiliation by joining the cast of the school play, an adaptation of Marivaux's A GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE. The torment inflicted upon Krimo by the flirtatious Lydia is enough to make any kid crazy, but add a jealous ex-girlfriend and a neighborhood bully into the mix and his life seems downright impossible. Shocking France by winning four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Female Newcomer), GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE deserves to find a worldwide audience. The cast of non-professionals is staggeringly assured--beginning with Elkharraz. But it is Forestier who leaves the deepest impression. Frank and unflinching yet heartfelt and tender, Kechiche's film is an electrifying achievement. [More]

Starring: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benahmou

Starring: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benahmou

Director: Abdel Kechiche

Director: Abdel Kechiche
Screenwriter: Abdel Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix
Producer: Jacques Ouaniche
Studio: New Yorker Films

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/07/08
Russell Edwards
Variety
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Viewers here can't help but respond to the raw emotions and acting ability of the largely nonprofessional cast.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Erica Abeel
Film Journal International
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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/19/07
Time Out

Mostly a monotonous din of kids trashing one another.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
10/14/05
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times

Abdellatif Kechiche's beautifully observed tale of high-school kids in the projects outside Paris... plays like a Cassavetes project in a fresh, young mode.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
10/14/05
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It is a provocative and potentially rich premise, to be sure, but the execution here is somewhat lacking.

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09/16/05
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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09/04/05
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Games of Love and Chance plays like a French version of Jim McKay's Our Song. But, unlike McKay's superior American version, Kechiche is unable to transform the everyday lives of his characters into something meaningful.

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09/01/05
Jordan Reed
Boxoffice Magazine

This graceful and sympathetic look at how the lives of teenagers intersect with a work of literature won several César awards in France.

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08/31/05
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Kechiche extracts breathtakingly disciplined performances from all of his first-time actors, and truly magical ones from Forestier as the prematurely full-blown diva Lydia and Sabrina Ouazani as Frida, her motor-mouthed partner in theatrical crime.

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08/31/05
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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A work of drama, it's more realistic than any TV reality show.

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08/31/05
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Reading between the cuss words, the movie glimpses a sunny teen innocence just before it darkens irreversibly into adulthood.

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08/30/05
David Ng
Village Voice
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The vérité fascinates, even if the artifice is obvious.

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08/24/05
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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the positive messages of The Game... make it worthwhile, especially for younger auds with a spirit of adventure to see something not created for the multiplex

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07/05/05
Robin Clifford
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expertly evokes these kids' world, where a cell phone is an all important possession, hip hop slang the language of the day and their couplings the main topic of conversation.

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06/22/05
Laura Clifford
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An innovative romantic coming-of-age tale set in a tough ghetto area outside Paris populated mainly by Muslim kids from North Africa.

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03/29/05
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

This isn't La Haine, it's more like Raising Victor Vargas, another surprisingly positive-minded film about urban youth.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
03/21/05
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

L’Esquive consistently teeters on the brink of tragedy but dares to end on a chipper note.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
03/21/05
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Has a lot of promise, but despite two raw, excellent performances L'esquive does not deliver.

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02/16/05
Boyd van Hoeij
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