FILM CLUB: Love Me If You Dare/Jeux D'Enfants
Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 21:51
Just copying James' post from the other film club thread to make a separate thread for this film. I haven't managed to get hold of this yet, I'll have look for it in London on saturday if I haven't found it before then.
Nikki Gradual wrote:
Love Me If You Dare/Jeux D'Enfants
OK, I chose this film because I really am not sure if I love it or hate, admire it or scorn it. I was hoping some other people would watch it and help me make my mind up. Some other people did watch it, didn't you?
Anyway, in so many ways it ticks all the boxes as being at the vanguard of the latest French wave that has brought us Amelie, A very long engagement et al. As with all the best French films, not that much actually happens and it is almost situationist in its observation of this doomed lifelong relationship. Also like the best French films it is darkly comic in places and has a lofty and total disregard for human suffering (brought on by other humans) which is amusing yet extremely disquieting.
On the other hand there are some directorial touches (animated sequences near the start for example) that I really can't decide whether they are superb and innovative or just distracting pretentious twaddle. Also is the ending a shitty cop out or kind of suitable? In fact, is the whole thing a lovely, thought-provoking dissection of the cruelty and insensitivity of humanity, or just a meandering piece of faux indie tosh?
Help me out here because all I know for sure is that Marion Cotillard is breathtaking in it and I'd have done anything to please her, too!
For more on the film go here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364517/
or here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me_If_You_Dare
Nikki Gradual wrote:
Love Me If You Dare/Jeux D'Enfants
OK, I chose this film because I really am not sure if I love it or hate, admire it or scorn it. I was hoping some other people would watch it and help me make my mind up. Some other people did watch it, didn't you?
Anyway, in so many ways it ticks all the boxes as being at the vanguard of the latest French wave that has brought us Amelie, A very long engagement et al. As with all the best French films, not that much actually happens and it is almost situationist in its observation of this doomed lifelong relationship. Also like the best French films it is darkly comic in places and has a lofty and total disregard for human suffering (brought on by other humans) which is amusing yet extremely disquieting.
On the other hand there are some directorial touches (animated sequences near the start for example) that I really can't decide whether they are superb and innovative or just distracting pretentious twaddle. Also is the ending a shitty cop out or kind of suitable? In fact, is the whole thing a lovely, thought-provoking dissection of the cruelty and insensitivity of humanity, or just a meandering piece of faux indie tosh?
Help me out here because all I know for sure is that Marion Cotillard is breathtaking in it and I'd have done anything to please her, too!
For more on the film go here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364517/
or here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me_If_You_Dare