rating:
(out of
4 stars)France; 2003
Directed by Yann Samuell; produced by Christophe Rossignon; written by Jacky Cukier, Yann Samuell
Starring Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Joséphine Lebas-Joly, Emmanuelle Grönvold, Gérard Watkins
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
In 'Jeux d'Enfants' the two main characters take their game so far you
almost stop caring for them. Julien (Guillauma Canet) and Sophie (Marion
Cotillard) have been best friends forever and since they are young they play
a game. They dare each other since they are kids. When you have a certain
object, a tin box, you are allowed to dare the other. In the beginning this
gives a lot of laughs for the audience, but when they grow older they only
torment each other. You are not even sure whether they love each other or
just use their friend for the game.
That the movie is funny in the first half makes it watchable, for the story
that is. On the technical level this movie is terrific. Especially the
cinematography looks great. If the movie had a story that could live up to
the technical achievement we might have had something great here. Now we
have a watchable movie with a nice start, a middle part where we don't
understand decisions from the characters and an ending that is probably the
right one, but feels very wrong. Watch it for the start and for its looks,
but don't expect too much.