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Shall We Kiss?

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Shall We Kiss? reviews
70
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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)

What The Critics Said

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100

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.

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90

Variety Derek Elley

This is upscale French entertainment at its best.

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88

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Impossibly charming and impossibly French.

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80

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

It is classical in form yet fresh and spontaneous.

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80

The Hollywood Reporter Gregory Valens

Misunderstandings, new turns and stratagems mark the rest of this delightful divertimento, which navigates between burlesque and romantic comedy.

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80

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.

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80

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Witty, insightful portraits of hyperverbal, self-conscious young people falling in and out of love.

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75

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

A sensational date movie.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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75

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!

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75

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The whole thing's weightless: An upscale date-movie bonbon that keeps yielding pungent aftertastes.

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75

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.

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70

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?

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67

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

The very definition of "breezy." It's a featherweight romantic comedy.

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63

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.

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50

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

The problem is that once they do connect, their passion isn't believable.

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50

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.

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50

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."

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50

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.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Painfully dunderheaded about the proclivities of the human heart.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 0.0 (out of 10) based on 0 User Votes

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