Synopsis
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
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Cast
- Guillaume CanetJulien Janvier
- Marion CotillardSophie Kowalsky
- Thibault Verhaeghe8-year-old Julien
- Joséphine Lebas-Joly8-year-old-Sophie
- Emmanuelle GrönvoldJulien's Mother
- Frédéric GeertsIgor
- Isabelle DelvalClothilde
- Jean-Michel FlagothierDorzac
- Gilles LelloucheSergei Nimov Nimovitch
- Élodie NavarreAurélie
Recommendations
- 75
ReelViews
If you like romantic movies but find Hollywood's increasingly sterile formulas to be a poisonous bore, Love Me if You Dare offers an antidote. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Much of the style strains too hard to be cute, but true romantics may shed copious tears of sympathy and empathy. - 70
L.A. Weekly
The rueful ghost of François Truffaut hovers over writer-director Yann Samuell's wonderfully capricious tale of Gallic lovers with no idea of when to say finis. - 63
New York Daily News
A perversely dark romantic comedy shot and edited in the contemporary fairy-tale style of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amélie." But this one has a dagger for a heart. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
The award for the most annoying character to appear in a movie so far this year turns out to be a tie: It goes to both of the oh-so-swankly tormented romantic mischief makers of Love Me if You Dare. - 40
The A.V. Club
The film's attempts at meaning do it in. The longer it goes on and the darker it grows, the further it drifts from any kind of human experience, outside of its protagonists' particular flavor of madness. - 40
Variety
Valiant attempt to create a modern fairytale ends up being frustratingly creepy instead of haunting and memorable.
