Release Date: 2003
R|1 hr 35 min
Plot Summary
Close childhood friends (Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard) continuously dare each other to pull pranks in a twisted game of one-upmanship.
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Emmanuelle Grönvold, Gérard Watkins, Elodie Navarre, Gilles Lellouche, Julia Faure
Director: Yann Samuell
Genres: Comedy drama, Romance
Production Co: Canal+
It's a pitch-black, Grimm Brothers-style fable that enchants, frustrates and ultimately dares you to love it. Even if you don't, you'll be riveted. show more
Despite the sterling performances by the two main actors, the movie tends to lose pace in the second half and needs more secondary characters. But for a first time in the director's chair, Samuell shows a deftness of touch that bodes well for the future. show more
Mr. Samuell's stylistic revelries are meant as comments on the conventions and excesses of movie romance, but his approach is glib and self-congratulatory. No feelings dwell beneath the layers upon layers of faux-naïve artifice. I dare you to sit through this movie and not wish you were somewhere else.
