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Kechiche introduced “Games of Love and Chance” with a heartfelt tribute to its cast, which is almost solely comprised of teenagers. He said, “Now we are going to see an older film, the one that I made several years ago, made with limited means, very little money, but the one in which the energy of young people became its true motivating factor, my joy, and drove the production...
...Games of Love and Chance” is about the teenage Abdelkrim, or Krimo, from the Paris suburbs who becomes infatuated with his gamine classmate Lydia. Krimo joins the school production of Marivaux’s “Games of Love and Chance” to play the counterpart of Lydia’s character. However, Krimo fails to go beyond merely murmuring the lines, since, as a matter of fact, he has never read a single book in his life not to mention 18th-century classical theatre. Kechiche’s camera observes the unfolding of the story...
...analytical approach to the film. “I did not explicitly set out to give the film a sociological label,” he said. “I primarily wanted to tell a story around the themes that were important to me—theatre, first love, the energy of youth.” Kechiche added that the specific social milieu was due to autobiographical reasons, and that any sociological or political nuances the film might deliver have been subconscious from his part...
...Happy Birthday,” accompanied by the band. “Growing up I couldn’t even think I’d still be living at this age,” said Haynes, in a kind farewell; “It feels like a dream... I love...
Usher’s songwriting staple—sharply produced R&B odes to love, often found in a club—is pretty well known by now, and no amount of personal issues are going to change it. Sticking to this staple, however, is not guaranteed to deliver Usher chart-topping hits. Whereas “Confessions” shifted close to 10 million copies in the U.S. and spawned four number one hits, Usher’s last album, 2008’s “Here I Stand,” failed to reach the success...