Un jeu d'enfants (2001)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Laurent Tuel

Writers:

Laurent Tuel (writer)
Constance Verluca (writer)

Release Date:

20 June 2001 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Content with two children in an upper class French marriage, a woman finds herself faced with visions of rape...

Plot Keywords:

Children | Vision | Supernatural | Blood | Good Versus Evil

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Karin Viard	...	Marianne Fauvel
Charles Berling	...	Jacques Fauvel
Ludivine Sagnier	...	Daphnée the Babysitter
Camille Vatel	...	Aude Fauvel
Alexandre Bongibault	...	Julien Fauvel
Aurélien Recoing	...	Inspecteur Mayens
Manuela Gourary	...	Madame Worms
Pierre Julien	...	Monsieur Worms
Idwig Stephane	...	Supervisor
Jean-Claude Perrin	...	Archivist
Gérard Dauzat	...	Eye Doctor
Daniel Isoppo	...	Family Doctor
Ahmed Guedayia	...	Delivery Boy
Hervé Colombel	...	Repairman #1
Martin Amic	...	Repairman #2

Also Known As:

A Children's Game (Australia)
Child's Game (informal English title)
Children's Play (International: English title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Australia:M | France:-12 | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Bee Movies

A Very Scary French Horror Movie

In Paris, Marianne (Karin Viard) and Jacques (Charles Berling), and their son Julian (Alexandre Bongibault) and daughter Aude (Camille Vatel) compose a happy upper class French family, living in a huge apartment (for European standards). The children have a baby-sitter, Daphnée (Ludivine Sagnier) and Jacques has just been promoted in his job. The family's life changes when Marianne receives two weird old visitors, the Worms (Pierre Julien and Manuela Gourary). They ask Marianne for permission to visit the apartment, where they live when they were children. Marianne receives a phone call from her husband, and when she returns to the living room, the strange couple was leaving the children's room. From this moment on, the most mysterious and bizarre things happen with Marianne and Jacques, affecting their lives. I liked this very scary French horror movie a lot. It has the same atmosphere of `Stanley Kubrick´s The Shining', the characters are well developed, and the tension increases in an intelligent way. The viewer is never 100% sure whether the mother or the father is getting deranged or the children became evil, until the end of the plot. Unfortunately, there is a great flaw in the script regarding the visit of the Worms: why have they waited so long to come back to the apartment? My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): `Jogos Sinistros' (`Sinister Games')