
Julien Janvier lost his mother young, drifted apart from his working class father and ever closer to confident Sophie Kowalsky, the Polish class outsider. Their dares game, symbolized by an interchanged music-box, grows ever bolder, regardless of harm to others and each-other. In his college years, it even suspends their relationship and toys with their marriages, but they are drawn back to each-other irresistibly.... (Full plot summary below)
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Julien Janvier lost his mother young, drifted apart from his working class father and ever closer to confident Sophie Kowalsky, the Polish class outsider. Their dares game, symbolized by an interchanged music-box, grows ever bolder, regardless of harm to others and each-other. In his college years, it even suspends their relationship and toys with their marriages, but they are drawn back to each-other irresistibly.
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| Film ScoutsJason GorberWhat a wonderful and demented love story! |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsGlenn WhippA dark, unpredictable love story that can either be viewed as tragic, idiotic or soulfully romantic, depending on whether you really believe love makes the world go around. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsThe violence of their romance is striking, sometimes moving, and always disturbing, even as metaphor. |
| Portland OregonianMarc MohanThere's something in the obsessiveness of these characters that pushes the film just beyond the level of believability, even for a romantic fable such as this. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesA romantic fairy tale for adults, it's captivating, charming and sometimes bittersweet. Trust me -- you've never seen anything quite like it. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA fanciful French drama that explores the shadow side of games in the lives of two very close friends. |
| San Jose Mercury NewsGlenn LovellThe kind of clever, color-saturated novelty that dares you not to like it. |
| Dallas Morning NewsPhilip WuntchThe elegantly photographed, unconventional French romance was apparently intended as a valentine to individual liberation. If so, rarely has the line between individual liberation and selfish irresponsibility seemed so blurry. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThe problem is, the characters eventually start to seem like a couple of idiots. |
| Film Journal InternationalRex RobertsEntertaining and appalling at once, an exercise in aesthetics that replaces the traditional unities with paradox, irony and cynicism. |