Games of Love and Chance (L'Esquive)
The film’s original French title, from fencing, means a quick move to get out of harm's way. After a long friendship, Krimo admits his love for the feisty Lydia and maneuvers his way into the school play in which she stars. This is not your typical high-school comedy, however, but a reality-based romance set in the housing complexes that ring Paris. The inhabitants are mostly disadvantaged North Africans and the play is an 18th-century comedy whose language is as far from French slang as Shakespeare is from rap. Tunisian-born French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche (La Faute à Voltaire, ND/NF 2001) returns with a neo-Cassavetes view of marginal adolescents absorbing high culture while they navigate love. France, 2004. 115 min. A New Yorker Films release.
M-31a Thu March 31 at 6pm
M-3c Sun April 3 at 6pm
A Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
W Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
M The Museum of Modern Art