"This game started with a pretty house, a pretty bus with no driver, a pretty box, and a pretty girl."
The movie starts off with how Julien and Sophie first meet, or at least have their first game together. The movie is about Julien and Sophie creating a game in which they both enjoy, out of dares. As the movie moves along in time, so does their age and their dares get more crazy and interesting. For one of their dares, Julien has to sleep with the schools bimbo and bring Sophie back her Earrings. The rules of the game basically are, if you have the Tin Box, you must create a dare for the other to do, then when the dare was done, you pass on the tin box to the other person and the same thing happens. It starts off with them as kids, then moves along with them being in high school, then adults and at the end in their old age. The movie goes at a good pace on each from kid to old age.
The actor and actress did a splendid job. Both Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard played Julien and Sohpie to their highest extent. Their cries, laughs sound realistic with surround sound like they're crying and laughing right by your side.
The soundtrack for the movie was good. The ending credits had a track that should be on an action movie like mission impossible, it had a trance like feel with French words. It's worth adding to your Top 25 Soundtrack lists.
Their was nothing really impressive with the camera angles like you would find in Citizen Kane. But I suppose they were Normal/Average camera angles. It can make you laugh, and you might shed a tear, but it won't have you really break into tears like The Notebook would. Love Me If You Dare is definitely worth adding to your movie collection, and to watch with your significant other.
"Love Me If You Dare" opens May 21, 2004 and is rated R. Drama, Foreign. Written and directed by Yann Samuell. Starring Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard.
