Love Me If You Dare

It may be a simple matter of cultural dissonance, or perhaps something was lost in translation. But it's hard to see why this obnoxious romantic comedy about the lifelong relationship between two mischievous adults locked in an ongoing game of "Dares" was such a huge hit in its native France. The game starts when eight-year-old Julien Janvier's (Thibault Verhaeghe) terminally ill mother (Emmanuelle Gronvold) gives him a small round tin decorated with a carousel motif. When Julien shows his prized possession to his new friend, Sophie (Josephine Lebas Joly), a spunky little outcast whose parents are poor Polish immigrants, she devises a contest by which they take turns...