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Shall We Kiss?

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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by: Emmanuel Mouret
Directed by: Emmanuel Mouret
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 27, 2009
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Julie Gayet, and Michaël Cohen
While traveling to Nantes for one evening, Emilie meets Gabriel. Equally seduced by one another, but both otherwise committed, they know they will probably never see each other again. He would like to kiss her. She as well, but a story prevents her from doing so: that of a married woman and of her best friend who were surprised by the effects of a kiss. Of a kiss that should have born no consequences. (Music Box Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Shall We Kiss? gives us storytelling as art. Emmanuel Mouret's romantic drama, in French with English subtitles, is expert, intricate, ineffably droll, ultimately provocative and entirely enchanting.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
It is classical in form yet fresh and spontaneous.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Gregory Valens
Misunderstandings, new turns and stratagems mark the rest of this delightful divertimento, which navigates between burlesque and romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The players in this mouth-watering Gallic soufflé are so attractive, well mannered and comfortably grounded in the bourgeois world that you needn’t fear for their well-being, minor heartaches notwithstanding.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Witty, insightful portraits of hyperverbal, self-conscious young people falling in and out of love.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Mouret not only stars (opposite a delicate Ledoyen) as the slightly schlemiely fellow in want of a woman's affection, he also wrote and directed this enticing, weightless divertissement.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Ledoyen in particular humanizes the story-within-a-story strategy. Her character's sly verbal hesitations become part of a mutual seduction, more theoretical than practical, but enticing nonetheless.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
If you have a hankering for a pretty good Woody Allen movie and want to brush up on your French at the same time, Shall We Kiss? is the ticket.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
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!
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The whole thing's weightless: An upscale date-movie bonbon that keeps yielding pungent aftertastes.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An 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.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
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?
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
The very definition of "breezy." It's a featherweight romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
They (the characters) approach the subjects of sex and romance with a naivete so staggering, it must be an embarrassment in the greater world. Inside their hermetically sealed complacency, I suppose it's a little exciting.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The problem is that once they do connect, their passion isn't believable.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Jan Stuart
It 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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Perhaps 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. That would never be a question in a movie like "Casablanca."
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ella Taylor
Bogs down in the philosophical shallow end and never quite recovers from what's clearly meant to be a deceptively light tone.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Painfully dunderheaded about the proclivities of the human heart.
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