This is not your average romantic comedy. Shall We Kiss? simply delights.
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06/12/09
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Shall We Kiss? (2008)
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Reviews Counted:67
Fresh:51
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6.6/10
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... [More]
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Reviews for Shall We Kiss?
Gayet and Cohen generate enough heat in their section to upstage the leads.
04/03/09
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
06/05/09
The French cinema continues to be the source of our most timelessly enchanting romantic entertainment.
03/25/09
Top CriticThe 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?
03/30/09
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.
03/28/09
A clever dissection of romance and friendship that feels nearly like a French Woody Allen film.
03/05/09
Faultlessly tasteful but a little stale. Emmanuel Mouret wrote, directed and stars in this whimsical story of temptation and consequences.
04/09/09
...an irresistibly blithesome piece of work...
04/12/09
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.
06/19/09
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.
06/26/09
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.
10/18/08
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
02/24/09
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.
03/25/09
An enchanting, erotic, and playful French film about kissing that leaves an indelible impression.
03/26/09
A gentle romantic comedy that could have used less chatter, more action.
03/07/09
While it's hardly novel to see the lives of lovers thrown into disarray by a series of misunderstandings, missed signals and well-intentioned lies, Shall We Kiss? carries it all off with a rare degree of sophistication and wit.
04/10/09
Top CriticRefreshingly, Mouret also shows that marital infidelity is not without serious repercussions.
05/21/09
Shall We Kiss? gives us storytelling as art. Emmanuel Mouret's romantic drama is expert, intricate, ineffably droll, ultimately provocative and entirely enchanting.
03/26/09
Top CriticThis quintessentially French bonbon is both sweet and dry, with just enough complexity to confound the fast-food appetite.
05/14/09
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