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Shall We Kiss? (2008)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:51
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Shall We Kiss? combines just enough romance and laughs to make for a charming French take on Woody Allen comedies.
Theatrical Release:Mar 27, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $373,940
Synopsis: Wry, observant and touching, Shall we Kiss? is a very contemporary meditation on the myriad implications of a simple kiss. When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they... Wry, observant and touching, Shall we Kiss? is a very contemporary meditation on the myriad implications of a simple kiss. When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences." Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.--© Music Box Films [More]
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, Stefano Accorsi, Frederique Bel, Melanie Maudran, Marie Madiner, Lucciana de Vogue, Jacques Lafoly
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Screenwriter: Emmanuel Mouret
Producer: Frederic Niedermayer
Studio: Music Box Films
Reviews for Shall We Kiss?
This is not your average romantic comedy. Shall We Kiss? simply delights.
Gayet and Cohen generate enough heat in their section to upstage the leads.
The addiction of French cinema to stories of love, lust, betrayal and romance continues unabated in the hands of Emmanuel Mouret, playing unassuming characters on screen in his own films, like this one
The French cinema continues to be the source of our most timelessly enchanting romantic entertainment.
The result is that Shall We Kiss? puts its viewers in a bind worthy of the lovers themselves: should we organize a Socratic symposium on the issues raised by the film, or hurl our popcorn violently at the screen?
A delightfully sweet romantic comedy of manners filled with genuine charm, warmth and intelligent humor. It also makes for a very pleasant and satisfying date movie.
A clever dissection of romance and friendship that feels nearly like a French Woody Allen film.
There are two couples in the French Shall We Kiss? One is appealing, one is annoying, and unfortunately, we spend most of the time with Monsieur and Mademoiselle Blecch.
Faultlessly tasteful but a little stale. Emmanuel Mouret wrote, directed and stars in this whimsical story of temptation and consequences.
Intellectual pretensions are trotted out, yet everything remains mired in bourgie rom-com cuteness and Pottery Barn aesthetics.
The influence of Woody Allen is obvious, but Mouret -- though he overdoes the tics and hesitancies of his nervous lover -- manages to make this combination of humour, sex and pain all his own.
The quiet joys of Shall We Kiss? are to be found not only in the observational writing and the pitch-perfect performances but in the way the mood shifts from tantalising foreplay to more serious matters.
Emmanuel Mouret continues his winning streak with Shall We Kiss? another Woody Allen-meets-Eric Rohmer romantic comedy in which the young writer-director again plays the doofus lead.
A gaggle of upwardly mobile yuppies are buffeted by the stings of love and lust in an utterly charming, smart and very French take on the birds and the bees and the mysteries of coincidence. Dollops of both Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer enrich this romantic
Anyone with half a brain is likely to be insulted by the film's insipid cutesy tone that creates a ridiculous fantasy scenario that has no basis in reality.
Bogs down in the philosophical shallow end and never quite recovers from what's clearly meant to be a deceptively light tone.
Is a kiss just a kiss or does it bear consequences: That's the question at the center of the charming if chatty French comedy of manners, which is inspired by Rohmer's cycle of morality fables.
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