loading...
Love Me If You Dare
2004
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoi Read more
| Starring | Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard |
|---|---|
| Director | Yann Samuell |
| Genres | Drama, Romance, World Cinema |
loading...
Love Me If You Dare
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoi
| Starring | Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard |
|---|---|
| Director | Yann Samuell |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Romance, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Feb 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
-
Critics' reviews (3)
View all -
Taking a childhood game to adult extremes, director Yann Samuell's anti-romance comedy asks us to root for a couple destined to be together, but who are wilfully determined to remain apart. The dares that young Julien and Sophie (Thibault Verhaeghe and Josephine Lebas Joly) make to get them through the pain of growing up are mischievous and sweet. However, the fact that the pair continue to disrupt each other's lives periodically over the next 15 years (Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard play the characters as adults) seems capricious, contrived and occasionally cruel. Technically accomplished (if sometimes showy in a Ma Vie en Rose kind of way), this is entertaining enough, but never wholly engaging.
-
Exasperating high romantic tosh about lovers who deliberately thwart their feelings for one another.
-
Most helpful member's review
View all -
77 out of 92 people found this review helpful
Watch this if you dare
Like Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 'Amelie', this French oddity is the kind of precious romantic whimsy that you'll fall in love with, or it will make you want to vomit. I'd be willing to place bets on the latter. Director Yann Martel charts the increasingly obsessive relationship between two irritating singletons; Julien(Guillaume Canet) and Sophie(Marion Cotillard). Sophie is whiny and unpleasant while Julien appears to lack any personality whatsoever. The pair deserve each other.
The two characters begin their friendship as children(both terrible actors), who escape their miserable lives by playing a constant game of dare. Flash forward ten years(Samuell does this in one dreadful piece of editing) and they are adults who still play these games, only now the games start to become more serious and dangerous.
It's supposed to be a romantic comedy, yet it lacks anything resembling romance or comedy. It also lacks any kind of narrative consistency or coherence, which director Yann Samuell tries to compensate for by throwing as many 'Amelie'-style visual tricks at it as possible.
There's probably an interesting film to be made about adults refusing to grow up but this certainly isn't it. The two leads are so repulsive and moronic that their antics soon become tiresome. Their behavior also makes no sense; They've been friends since childhood and clearly there's some degree of sexual tension between them, yet we are expected to believe that their obsession with a childish game and some petty resentments prevents them from consummating their relationship? Yes we are, and we're also meant to care. When we see the appalling way they treat their spouses in favour of their pathetic game-playing, we aren't meant to think 'what a pair of ignorant self-obsessed cretins', we're meant to think 'Oh, how romantic'.
Well it's not romantic, it's absolutely vile, childish, narcissistic and shallow as a puddle. The worst film I've seen this year by some distance. -
Most recent members' review
View all -
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
love me if you dare
fun, inventive, clever, and unique!
-
Image gallery
View allShowing 1 to 4 of 4
-
-
More like this
View allShowing 1 to 4 of 20
Related user collection
good news for people who like bad news (25)
82.4% from 13 members
Showing 1 to 3 of 25
Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop
-
-
- Love Me If You Dare
- DVD: £4.93
Free Delivery - RRP £19.79 (you save: 75%)
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to ... -