4Jeux D’Enfants (2003)
Did you play a lot of Truth or Dare in your youth? If you did, this movie should make you smile. Two young children bond over a daring game : they throw each other difficult or dangerous challenges. Through their teenage years and adulthood, they intervene in the other’s life, sometimes destroying relationships. Will they finally confess their love or keep doing horrible dares?
Fun fact : the two main actors, Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard, are a real-life couple since 2007. They have two children, a boy and a girl.
5Paris Je T’aime (2006)
Do you watch romantic French movies in order to feel like you’re in Paris? You should watch Paris Je T’aime, a two-hour film that consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements and directed by 22 directors like Joel and Ethan Coen, Gérard Depardieu, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer, Yolande Moreau, and Gus Van Sant. You’ll laugh and cry, while visiting different places in Paris.
6Prête-moi ta main (2006)
What should you do when you’re 43, happy in your single life, and don’t want to be married even though your family insists on it? Like Luis Campos (played by Alain Chabat), you rent a single woman to play your fiancée! Will Luis’s family like Emma, the pretend fiancée? Will Luis and Emma develop some feelings for each other? You might think you’ve already seen this sort of storyline, but trust us: I Do is the perfect funny and feel-good movie.
