Games of Love and Chance (L'Esquive) (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes

Games of Love and Chance (L'Esquive) (2005)

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78%
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AUDIENCE SCORE

73%

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Movie Info

Krimo schemes his way into acting in a play in order to get closer to Lydia, the divaesque lead actress, whom he loves. This is not your typical high-school comedy, however, but a reality-based romance set in the housing complexes that ring Paris. The inhabitants are mostly disadvantaged North Africans and the play is an 18th-century comedy whose language is as far from French slang as Shakespeare is from rap.

Cast

Osman Elkharraz
as Krimo
Sara Forestier
as Lydia
Sabrina Ouazani
as Frida
Nanou Benhamou
as Nanou
Aurelie Ganito
as Magali
Meriem Serbah
as Krimo's Mother
Rachid Hami
as Rachid
Carole Franck
Hafet Ben-Ahmed
Hajar Hamlili
Meryem Serbah
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Critic Reviews for Games of Love and Chance (L'Esquive)

All Critics (18) | Top Critics (7)

Mostly a monotonous din of kids trashing one another.

October 14, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
Top Critic

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

September 16, 2005
Top Critic

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

August 31, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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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.

August 31, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4
Top Critic

A work of drama, it's more realistic than any TV reality show.

August 31, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
Top Critic

Reading between the cuss words, the movie glimpses a sunny teen innocence just before it darkens irreversibly into adulthood.

August 30, 2005 | Full Review…
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