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Inside the mind games of cinema’s dangerous romances
Actress Marion Cotillard’s obvious allure brings the young Polish girl of the slums, Sophie Kowalsky, to life in Jeu d’Enfants (2003). It’s the ultimate film français, featuring a teasingly surreal yet realistic mind-fucking game of cat-and-mouse that you won’t forget anytime soon. Sophie’s childhood bond with Julien plunges them into a game of mind-morphing dares (“cap ou pas cap?”) that is both timeless and inescapable. And yet their game is not a prison. It gives the two jeunesse the freedom to fearlessly confront their impulses and invite one another into their own uniquely intellectual world as the heat and intensity…