Love Me If You Dare: film review (French movie)

Just watched Jeux d'enfants / Love Me If You Dare. It was... odd. Quirky. Laugh-out-loud funny at times, but in a peculiar way. And in a few moments, shockingly painful because you feel the heartache. And then the heartache has transformed into another game, another way to one-up the other character.

I think at times it was a little too obvious, and at other times really succeeded with subtlety. The dialogue was fascinating (though it made me wish I could understand French better and fully appreciate the fast little quips and idioms) and very smooth, and the story was surprisingly fast-paced, but I don't think the second half was quite as strong as the first half. Also, I'm not really sure the message of the film was well done or poorly done, because I got it and understood it, but at the same time I totally didn't identify with it. I could never be one of these two people, never put myself through what they put themselves through. But at the same time, it has its perverse charm.

I'm not sure if it was a happy movie or a sad movie. I'm not sure if I liked it or didn't like it.

It was odd. It was pretty to look at. It was French. Really, that pretty much says everything you need to know about it before going in.

my grade: B+

( some spoilery thoughts )

And yeah, IdosortacompareeveryromanticfilmtoMoulinRouge.I'msorryIcan'thelpitIlovethatfilmsomuch.


EDIT:

I kinda want the soundtrack though.

Yeah, I do.

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Just donated 25 dollars to the Red Cross hurricane victims fund, while watching this celebrity & music fundraiser special on tv. Sadly, I did not get a celebrity on the phone. Instead I got this guy who TALKED WAY TOO LOUDLY because maybe he believed TALKING IN CAPS MAKES PEOPLE DONATE MORE, instead of, you know, hang up-- which I briefly speculated on doing because god it was annoying and making my ears hurt. But I had already committed myself so I figured hanging up and calling again just to get a different person on the other end was silly. So I held the phone away from my ear about three inches and talked that way.

I wasn't wild about donating over the phone because I wanted some kind of documentation so that my donation could be matched by my parent's employers. But by tonight I figured time is money and even if I can't get it matched, there's no point in dawdling any longer. I certainly don't want to be like my nation's leader, thankyouverymuch.

I'm using this Hughes-on-the-phone icon because I wish my call-taker had been Hughes instead of GUY WHO TALKS IN CAPS. Hughes would have made billions for them.