Former animator Yann Samuell's debut feature is an acid-spiked confection, playing like Amélie without the feelgood factor. No bad thing, though it's all a bit too trifling to linger in the cortex. The action circles around Sophie (Marion Cotillard) and Julien (Guillaume Canet), outsiders and childhood friends who, despite clearly being one another's intended, get entangled in an ongoing game of mutual dares that overrides their real feelings. Helmer Samuell has fun watching them egg each other on to amusingly cruel new levels of mischief, keeping things lively with vivid, fantastical flourishes that recall both Ma Vie En Rose and that pixie from Montmartre.
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