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  • Summary: Teenagers bantering about seduction in their own words, tackling the fear of rejection, and learning how to love is the heart of Games of Love and Chance. It may take place in the Parisian projects, but this is a universal coming-of-age/love story. (New Yorker Films)
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
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  1. Reviewed by: David Ng
    90
    Unlike American counterparts "Kids" or "Dangerous Minds," this highly intelligent comedy (which cleaned up at this year's Césars) doesn't seek to shock or inspire, but merely documents teen moodiness in all its tedious unpredictability.
  2. A graceful and sympathetic look at how the lives of teenagers intersect with a work of literature.
  3. 75
    A work of drama, it's more realistic than any TV reality show.
  4. It is a provocative and potentially rich premise, to be sure, but the execution here is somewhat lacking.

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  1. Tavi
    9
    Most original film I've seen in a long time. Great acting and directing. Best French film of the year.