Synopsis
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.
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Cast
- Virginie LedoyenJulie
- Emmanuel MouretNicolas
- Julie GayetEmilie
- Michaël CohenGabriel
- Stefano AccorsiClaudio
- Frédérique BelCaline
- Mélanie MaudranPénélope
- Marie MadinierEglantine
- Lucciana de VogüeLouise
- Jacques LafolyKellner der Hotelbar
Recommendations
- 100
Wall Street Journal
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. - 90
Variety
This is upscale French entertainment at its best. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Misunderstandings, new turns and stratagems mark the rest of this delightful divertimento, which navigates between burlesque and romantic comedy. - 80
The New York Times
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. - 75
New York Post
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! - 75
Christian Science Monitor
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. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 70
The New Yorker
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?
