Games of Love and Chance

L'esquive

France

2003

117 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou, Hafet Ben-Ahmed, Aurélie Ganito, Carole Franck, Meryem Serbah, Rachid Hami, Hajar Hamlili, Hanane Mazouz, Sylvain Phan, Olivier Loustau

SOUND Sophie Bousquet-Foures, Nicolas Waschkowski

London, Berlinale (Panorama), San Francisco (World Cinema), Karlovy Vary (Another View), Stockholm (Competition): Honorable Mention, San Sebastián (Cutting Edge of French Cinema)

Director

Abdellatif Kechiche (Arabic: عبد اللطيف كشيش‎, born December 7, 1960 in Tunis, Tunisia) is an actor, movie director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with La Faute à Voltaire (Blame it on Voltaire), aka Poetical Refugee, which he also wrote. He also directed L’Esquive, which won a César Award for Best Film and Best Director. He has presented recently his last film La Graine et le Mulet on 64th Mostra del Cinema at Venezia for which he was awarded the Special Jury Prize, the FIPRESCI Prize, such as later the Louis Delluc Prize and others César Awards for Best Film and Best Director.

As an actor, his introduction to most English-speaking audiences was starring as Ashade the taxi driver in the 2005 psychological thriller “Sorry, Haters”, an “official selection” in both the Toronto and American Film Institute’s film festivals. —Wikipedia

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Fidel Antonio Medel

4Jun10

Abdel Kechiche dissects teenage romance and high school drama (the superficial kind that is) with the hilarious but sharp “L'esquive (Games of Love and Chance)”. In high school, the trivial becomes life and death situations and verbal squabbles are relentless. Sandwiched in the funny scenes is a disturbing and long sequence that felt like a forceful punch in the gut. http://pixelatedpopcorn.blogspot.com/