Games of Love and Chance (2003)
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.
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As with his early films, Games Of Love And Chance (2003) and The Secret Of The Grain (2007), Kechiche deploys characteristic naturalism: little to no music, long takes with improvised dialogue, and frequent extreme close-ups, particularly scenes of people eating.
Having previously examined the lives of artistically inclined youth in 2004’s “Games of Love and Chance,” Kechiche and co-writer Ghalya Lacroix (who also served as one of four editors) have narrowed their focus yet deepened their emotional palette with this very loose adaptation of Julie Maroh’s 2010 graphic novel, “Le Bleu est une couleur chaude.”
And as in his 2003 breakthrough, which revolves around a group of teens rehearsing a passage from Marivaux's play Games of Love and Chance, there's a sense here of adolescence as perpetual theater.
After taking a stab at historical tragedy with the biopic Black Venus, Kechiche returns to the roots of his 2003 sophomore effort, Games of Love and Chance, focusing once again on adolescent angst, class discrimination and thwarted love, albeit of a very different kind.