Bogs down in the philosophical shallow end and never quite recovers from what's clearly meant to be a deceptively light tone.
Shall We Kiss?(Un baiser s’il vous plaît)
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France · 2007
1h 40m
Director Emmanuel Mouret
Starring Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet, Michaël Cohen
Genre Comedy, Romance, Drama
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After meeting by chance and spending a pleasant evening together, Gabriel offers “a kiss without consequences.” Emilie declines and recounts a story where a kiss led to unexpected and disastrous consequences. Unfolding in flashbacks, she presents a lesson of how indulging in desires can affect the lives of many unknown.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New Yorker by 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?
This is upscale French entertainment at its best.
Wall Street Journal by 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.
Entertainment Weekly by 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.
The very definition of "breezy." It's a featherweight romantic comedy.
Christian Science Monitor by 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.
The New York Times by 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.
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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