Love me if you dare
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love me if you dare |
| Original title | Jeux d'enfants |
| Country of production | France , Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK from 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yann Samuell |
| script | Yann Samuell , Jacky Cukier |
| production | Christophe Rossignon |
| music | Philippe Rombi |
| camera | Antoine Roch |
| cut | Andrea Sedláčková |
| occupation | |
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Love me, if you dare (Original title: Jeux d'enfants) is a French feature film from 2003 and the directorial debut of Yann Samuell .
action
The film takes place in a Belgian city, where the little girl Sophie is insulted by some children as "dirty policeman". A bus driver and a young boy, Julien, are the only ones who help her pick up the exercise books that the other children have thrown in a puddle.
To cheer her up, Julien gives her a music box , which is very important to him because he got it from his terminally ill mother. So he asks her to give him the can every now and then. Amazed that he wants the present back immediately, Sophie demands that he prove to her how important the can is to him. To do this, Julien releases the handbrake on the bus and it rolls off without a driver, including the children who teased her. A game begins in which the music box moves from one to the other after each completed task.
An intimate friendship develops between the son of wealthy Belgian parents and the daughter of poor Polish immigrants. As children, for example, they pull a wedding buffet on the floor, while as adolescents they pull their respective lovers into the games. They are not at all interested in the consequences of their authoritarian parents and the rest of the environment.
But they don't want to admit the developing love, they just rush from one kick to the next. The games are meanwhile becoming more and more extreme and existential.
The preliminary climax is that Sophie lets Julien's wedding break, he is then disowned by his father and she almost dies in another game.
After ten years of separation, it comes to a brilliant end, as the two of them simply ignore their entire surroundings (they are only stared at with sheer horror). A simple happy ending , as usual in most love stories, is thwarted by the fact that the two found each other kissing happily and tightly, but standing in a deep excavation that is poured with concrete while they are kissing.
Soundtracks
The album was released on September 9, 2003 by Philippe Rombi .
| No. | title |
|---|---|
| 1. | Overture |
| 2. | Love theme |
| 3. | Solitude / L'Escalier du Temps |
| 4th | Beethov 'Fantaisie / Cap Ou Pas Cap? |
| 5. | Jeux d'enfants |
| 6th | Les Lunettes Magiques |
| 7th | Derniers Instants |
| 8th. | Premier meringue |
| 9. | Declaration / separation |
| 10. | Invitation |
| 11. | La Vie en Rose (Trio Esperança) |
| 12. | 10 Ans Plus Tard |
| 13. | Mieux Que La Vie (Poursuite) |
| 14th | La Vie en Rose ( Donna Summer ) |
| 15th | Le Meilleur et le Pire |
| 16. | Sous la Pluie |
| 17th | Pour Toujours (Love Theme) |
| 18th | La Vie en Rose ( Louis Armstrong ) |
| 19th | La Vie en Rose ( Zazie ) |
style
Director and screenwriter Yann Samuell repeatedly uses strange-looking, comic-like or fantasy-like inserts that give the film its very own touch. The narrative perspective often alternates between Julien, Sophie and a silent observer.
Gross profit
The film reached around 1.5 million admissions in Europe, most of them with 1.07 million in France, followed by Germany (145,000) and Belgium (59,000). Worldwide, the film achieved gross revenues of around $ 8.56 million.
Reviews
“The trail of devastation that runs through this film, which moves every norm, is extraordinary, as are Samuell's fabulous mood without regard to space and time and the director's desire to escalate. The autonomy with which two lovers willfully expose their feelings to an increasingly devastating destructive rage may not be evident at every moment. But what the French director shows, splendidly supported by the actors Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard in all phases of self-renunciation, shows scene after scene what wonderful cinematic surprises the power of anarchy can give birth to. "
“In the intoxication of the visual effects and with increasing pleasure in cruel play, however, empathy with the characters is increasingly lost. Fascinated, but strangely unmoved, you watch the self-destructive goings-on of the two stubborn heads. "
"An impressive study of the destructive power of a perverted love, which is spelled out with merciless consistency and with the imaginative force of an arsenal of cinematic means."
Awards
- 2004: Newport Beach Film Festival - Best Actress for Marion Cotillard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeux d'enfants in: Lumière - Database of film attendance figures in Europe, lumiere.obs.coe.int (accessed on November 12, 2009)
- ↑ www.boxofficemojo.com: Love Me, if you dare. (accessed on November 12, 2009)
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Seidel in FAZ of August 11, 2004
- ↑ Nani Fux on artechock.de
- ↑ Love me if you dare. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Love Me If You Dare in the Internet Movie Database (English)