Average Rating: 5.2/10
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Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 44
The romantic leads are too obnoxious and self-centered to generate interest or sympathy.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 16
The romantic leads are too obnoxious and self-centered to generate interest or sympathy.
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Part romantic comedy and part black comedy, director Yann Samuell's 2003 feature film debut Jeux d'Enfants (Love Me if You Dare) follows the exploits of two young would-be lovers as they go from childhood to adulthood with themselves as the greatest hurdle to their own happiness. Julien and Sophie first meet at the age of eight when both are undergoing great trauma: Julien is watching his mother die and Sophie has become the focus of intense hazing at the hands of some fellow schoolmates. On one
R, 1 hr. 35 min.
May 21, 2004 Limited
Oct 19, 2004
$0.4M
Paramount Classics
All Critics (87) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (45) | DVD (9)
Love Me If You Dare is far from everybody's cup of latte, but for those willing to take that dare, it has plenty to chew on.
Melds the magic of childhood memories with the pain of unrequited love.
The kind of precious whimsy that you want to squash.
There's an outlaw fascination in watching two people for whom going too far is never far enough.
The problem is, the characters eventually start to seem like a couple of idiots.
The elegantly photographed, unconventional French romance was apparently intended as a valentine to individual liberation. If so, rarely has the line between individual liberation and selfish irresponsibility seemed so blurry.
It twinkles itself right into a rubber room.
Put this one in your "DVDs To Snort Coke Off Of" pile.
For his feature film debut, director Yann Samuell mainlines into Amelie for inspiration but can scarcely muster a contact high.
Has a gimmicky, inventive style like Amelie, but the comedy has a very nasty edge.
Movie characters don't have to be nice, but they do need to be interesting. Nastiness without intrigue translates, in whatever language, to 'annoying.'
The dreamlike amber washes and comic visual asides stress the otherness of the pair's reality, but seem to offer a limp excuse for their deluded exemption from empathy.
Love Me If You Dare presents a...cynical and often downright cruel perspective on relationships, though the film's bubbly look keeps it from becoming too dark.
Samuell's naivety and inexperience lead to this being an uncomfortable, if intriguing, mess.
Entertaining and appalling at once, an exercise in aesthetics that replaces the traditional unities with paradox, irony and cynicism.
Juvenile and selfish, Love Me If You Dare dares to entertain in an appalling manner depicting an affair adulterated by irrationality, irresponsibility, and immaturity. Inspired by Amélie in cinematic behavior and approach, Love Me If You Dare is an intriguing confusion communicating offensive and embarrassing messages
September 19, 2011Super Reviewer
I stopped watching this halfway through and, you know what, I don't feel even remotely bad about it. 2011 is too short to be spending with fictional douchebags!
January 23, 2007Super Reviewer
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