Built around a high school production of Pierre de Marivaux´s eponymous 1730 play, Games of Love and Chance is set in the housing projects on the Parisian outskirts that are home to many Franco-Arab families today. While the youth in these same areas have rioted occasionally in recent years in response to police violence, Kechiche pointedly avoids any sensationalizing of their struggles. The film instead focuses on a teenager pulled into the play’s cast by his unspoken attraction to a classmate. Using the blossoming relationship between the young couple as its spine, Games of Love and Chance expands outward to a wide cast of characters, reveling in their singular use of slang and other everyday behaviors, and expressing Marivaux’s humanist vision of class differences transcended.