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Fresh:17
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
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
Mouret is the cinematic offspring of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer. From the former he takes the actor-director presenting himself as neurotic but satisfying lover; from the latter he absorbs the pleasure of extended talk. Mouret's talk is enjoyable, but i
Top CriticImpossibly charming and impossibly French, Shall We Kiss? is a comic romance full of rueful musings about fidelity and true love.
Top CriticAn engaging romantic comedy that's deeper, smarter and more pessimistic than it appears at first glance, a film with shrewd insight into the mysteries of human attraction.
Top CriticIt's an ode to the absurdity of attraction.
Top CriticPerhaps the film's biggest weakness is that all the characters are so naive and petty you can't really work up much fervour about who sleeps with whom.
Top CriticEqual parts ridiculous and romantic, Shall We Kiss is an airy French puff pastry of a film, delicate and sweet, if lacking in any heavy nutritional content.
Top CriticWhile 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 CriticThe film’s very slight (pick your comparison: bonbon, souffle, sorbet) but it has a way of lingering a while after you see it.
Top CriticFaultlessly tasteful but a little stale. Emmanuel Mouret wrote, directed and stars in this whimsical story of temptation and consequences.
Top CriticIt is as if the director had studied the comedies of Eric Rohmer and Woody Allen from top to bottom and come away with all the wrong lessons.
Top CriticGayet and Cohen generate enough heat in their section to upstage the leads.
Top CriticIs 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 Critic[An] enticing, weightless divertissement, a distant Gallic cousin to Woody Allen's talky comedies of romantic fumbling.
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?
Top CriticShall We Kiss? features crisp dialogue and understated humor, played out by an attractive young cast. Audiences bred on Hollywood romances might find the film too chatty and contemplative. To them I say: Get over it, kids!
Top CriticShall We Kiss? is a slight movie, but it's also a quietly enjoyable one.
Top CriticThe matchmaking games in Emmanuel Mouret’s romantic comedy Shall We Kiss? may backfire, but nobody is seriously hurt.
Top CriticShall We Kiss? gives us storytelling as art. Emmanuel Mouret's romantic drama is expert, intricate, ineffably droll, ultimately provocative and entirely enchanting.
Top CriticThe French cinema continues to be the source of our most timelessly enchanting romantic entertainment.
Top CriticBogs down in the philosophical shallow end and never quite recovers from what's clearly meant to be a deceptively light tone.
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