Review of Love Me If You Dare (2003) by Daniel P — 10 Apr 2010

Yeuch. Had it not been for the truly excellent performances from Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard I am pretty confident I would have switched this off half way through. Jeux d'enfants is a repetitive, twee mess, that attempts to cut through the afore-mentioned twee-ness by injecting pseudo-darkness and by tacking on annoying surrealist tangents.

The central characters are both gruesome and grotesque and highly unlikeable, and between the contrivances and unconvincing comedy and the hurl-worthy ending, there's little here to recommend this film aside for some admittedly interesting directorial flourishes and the acting.