September 16, 2005
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Osman Elkharraz,
Sara Forestier,
Sabrina Ouazani,
Nanou Benhamou,
Aurelie Ganito
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A young tough develops a taste for the classics when he falls for a girl who wants to be an actor in this drama from France. Krimo (Osman Elkharraz) is a streetwise teenager who doesn't have much to s... read more
Directed by: Abdellatif Kechiche, Abdel Kechiche
Release Date: August 31, 2005
DVD Release Date: April 18, 2006
Stats: 91 reviews
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August 31, 2005
A.O. Scott, New York Times
This graceful and sympathetic look at how the lives of teenagers intersect with a work of literature won several César awards in France. Full Review
August 31, 2005
Jan Stuart, Newsday
Kechiche extracts breathtakingly disciplined performances from all of his first-time actors, and truly magical ones from Forestier as the prematurely full-blown diva Lydia and Sabrina Ouazani as Frida... Full Review
August 31, 2005
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
A work of drama, it's more realistic than any TV reality show.
August 30, 2005
David Ng, Village Voice
Reading between the cuss words, the movie glimpses a sunny teen innocence just before it darkens irreversibly into adulthood. Full Review
August 24, 2005
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
The vérité fascinates, even if the artifice is obvious. Full Review
March 1, 2007
Erica Abeel, Film Journal International
Viewers here can't help but respond to the raw emotions and acting ability of the largely nonprofessional cast. Full Review
October 14, 2005
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Mostly a monotonous din of kids trashing one another. Full Review
October 14, 2005
Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Abdellatif Kechiche's beautifully observed tale of high-school kids in the projects outside Paris... plays like a Cassavetes project in a fresh, young mode. Full Review
September 1, 2005
Jordan Reed, Boxoffice Magazine
Games of Love and Chance plays like a French version of Jim McKay's Our Song. But, unlike McKay's superior American version, Kechiche is unable to transform the everyday lives of his characters into s... Full Review
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