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Cannes 2008: The final word
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk —
... or Abdel Kechiche's L'Esquive . With absolute confidence and easy, unaffected calm, Cantet carried off a movie which should be the stalest possible stuff: the idealistic young teacher who comes to teach a tough school, and, yes, finds that he has something to learn from the kids. It is based on a novel by ...
Seattle Dispatch. 3.
GreenCine Daily —
... 's L'Esquive (aka Games of Love and Chance) in its portrait of the Paris projects, or in French lingo, les cities, but has its own sensibility and its own vivid surprises. There is little sense of racial divide or tension as we watch the young men of these ghettoized suburbs filled with minorities, the poor and unemployed, a cultural mix of French-born citizens of African, Arab, white, Jewish, and Asian ancestry, talk and play and flick shit at another (race does come up in the insults, but it is equal opportunity and decidedly ...
Couscous (La Graine et le mulet) - Review
Film for the Soul —
... ' and following on the success with more awards for his second feature in 2003, L'esquive (Games of Love and Chance), Couscous finds the talented director in fine form. Composing a ensemble piece about the daily struggles of an immigrant family living in the French port town of Sete, Kechiche's latest film covers similar ground to his previous work and establishes his growing reputation as one of the primary voices of immigrant life in Europe. ...
