Love Me If You Dare
(2003)
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Love Me If You Dare
(2003)
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| Guillaume Canet | ... | ||
| Marion Cotillard | ... | ||
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Thibault Verhaeghe | ... | |
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Joséphine Lebas-Joly | ... | |
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Emmanuelle Grönvold | ... |
Julien's Mother
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Gérard Watkins | ... |
Julien's Father
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| Gilles Lellouche | ... | ||
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Julia Faure | ... |
Sophie's Sister
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Laëtizia Venezia Tarnowska | ... |
Christelle Louise Bouchard
(as Laetizia Venezia)
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| Élodie Navarre | ... |
Aurélie Miller
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Nathalie Nattier | ... | |
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Robert Willar | ... |
Julien (80 ans)
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Frédéric Geerts | ... |
Igor
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Manuela Sanchez | ... |
Teacher
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Philippe Drecq | ... |
School Principal
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Julien Janvier lost his mother young, drifted apart from his working class father and ever closer to confident Sophie Kowalsky, the Polish class outsider. Their dares game, symbolized by an interchanged music-box, grows ever bolder, regardless of harm to others and each-other. In his college years, it even suspends their relationship and toys with their marriages, but they are drawn back to each-other irresistibly. Written by KGF Vissers
I love this film. It's light, dreamy, and colorful. The movie does not ask you to take it seriously, but simply to watch as Julien and Sophie play with the elements of conventional life. I'm reminded of a character from Milan Kundera's Immortality, who played with the world in the same fervor and commitment.
We see Julien and Sophie's games becoming more and more elaborate as they grow up, affecting other lives even. And when they do, you understand at most levels that they do not mean to hurt other people. They just play as the game is supposed to be played.
It is fantasy in that it lets you suspend realism for a moment, and dwell on the things we take for granted many times- laughter, romance, and childlike innocence. This movie made me smile, and I have no need to question motivations etc. It would be absurd to questions things that are meant to be left alone in their wonder.