Alliance Française de Manille screening

Alliance Française de Manille presents

L'esquive
( Games of Love and Chance )
a film by Abdel Kechiche
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 117 minutes
Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)

Critics:
" A work of drama, it's more realistic than any TV reality show."
- V.A. Musetto (New York Post)

" This graceful and sympathetic look at how the lives of teenagers intersect with a work of literature won several César awards in France." - A.O. Scott (New York Times)

Genre: Drama ; film advisory warning: violent content

Cast overview:
Osman Elkharraz .... Krimo
Sara Forestier .... Lydia
Sabrina Ouazani .... Frida
Nanou Benhamou .... Nanou
Hafet Ben-Ahmed .... Fathi
Aurélie Ganito .... Magalie
Carole Franck .... French Professor
Hajar Hamlili .... Zina
Rachid Hami .... Rachid
Meryem Serbah .... Krimo's Mother
Hanane Mazouz .... Hanane
Sylvain Phan .... Slam
Olivier Loustau .... Police
Rosalie Symon .... Police
Patrick Kodjo Topou .... Police, (and more)

Synopsis:
Abdel Kechiche's second feature, after the celebrated BLAME IT ON VOLTAIRE, firmly establishes the actor-turned-director as a major presence in world cinema. A grittily realistic portrait of life in a downtrodden Parisian housing project, GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE exhilaratingly captures the tumultuous ups-and-downs of adolescence. Krimo (Osman Elkharraz) is a tough-minded teenager who yearns for the day when his father will be released from prison. After breaking up with his girlfriend, Krimo begins to fall for the luminous Lydia (Sara Forestier), who he has known his whole life but has only begun to see in a romantic light. In order to get closer to Lydia, Krimo risks humiliation by joining the cast of the school play, an adaptation of Marivaux's A GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE. The torment inflicted upon Krimo by the flirtatious Lydia is enough to make any kid crazy, but add a jealous ex-girlfriend and a neighborhood bully into the mix and his life seems downright impossible.

Shocking France by winning four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Female Newcomer).


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