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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
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.
Top CriticShall We Kiss? has an Allen-ish feel; but it also feels like a bad copy.
Shall We Kiss? is not without charms, but the crux of the characters’ quandary is about as monochromatic as the clothes they wear.
You can all too easily imagine an unfortunately faithful remake starring Zach Braff and Zooey Deschanel.
Shall We Kiss? ...takes place in an obviously fictional world where everyone is sophisticated and beautiful and lives in great apartments ...
Charming, but too contrived for a great turn on
An enchanting, erotic, and playful French film about kissing that leaves an indelible impression.
It's an ode to the absurdity of attraction.
Top CriticA one-joke comedy that is indulged for far too long and, in the end, becomes a pat morality tale.
...doesn't break any new ground but it is executed with a deft hand by [director-writer-actor Emmanuel] Mouret.
...a romantic comedy that doesn’t always go where one expects as the repercussion of a kiss is given weighty exploration.
Faultlessly tasteful but a little stale. Emmanuel Mouret wrote, directed and stars in this whimsical story of temptation and consequences.
Top CriticAnyone 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.
Is Shall We Kiss? without merit? Not entirely. It has a grace, a languid charm, a pictorial elegance. The plot, when it winds up and unwinds, is ingenious. But are we expected in any sense to find these people realistic?
Top CriticEmmanuel 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.
Top CriticIntellectual pretensions are trotted out, yet everything remains mired in bourgie rom-com cuteness and Pottery Barn aesthetics.
If Rohmer is Mouret’s closest reference, he has also learned much about smart dialogue and screwball couplings from the 1930s comedies of Hollywood vets like Hawks and Lubitsch, and those of his own countryman Sacha Guitry.
[A] delightful and deeply satisfying French confection.
Gayet and Cohen generate enough heat in their section to upstage the leads.
Top Critic[The] polite inquiry [of the title] pretty well sums up the tone of this featherweight ensemble comedy about French people falling in and out of love.
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