Love Me if You Dare (2003)

This French movie really needed to make its mind up as to whether it wanted to be a feel-good fantasy or something rather less, as the tone was very inconsistent.  It's the story of a man and a woman, friends from childhood, who have always played a game of "dare" to pass possession of a toy carousel.  She was bullied as being from a poor Polish immigrant family and he had lost his beloved mother to illness.  Between them they engaged in more and more audacious dares as kids and although perceived as trouble-makers, their exploits were filmed in a fantastical way remniscent of "Amelie".  As they got older the spirit of their dares became more bitter and they went their own way for ten years -- the period of her last dare. There was something very mean-spirited about this section of the film.  They end up together -- it is clear that they have always been in love -- and the style reverts again, when as wrinklies they are still daring each other to perform outrageous acts.  An interesting but at times aggravating film.