Un baiser s'il vous plaît 2007

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film's very slight (pick your comparison: bonbon, souffle, sorbet) but it has a way of lingering a while after you see it. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Gayet and Cohen generate enough heat in their section to upstage the leads. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Shall We Kiss? gives us storytelling as art. Emmanuel Mouret's romantic drama is expert, intricate, ineffably droll, ultimately provocative and entirely enchanting. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: [A] delightful and deeply satisfying French confection. Read more

Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: 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 Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Between the pervasive old-world charm and the soundtrack's light classical music, Shall We Kiss? feels as pleasant and pointless as an afternoon of antiquing. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's an ode to the absurdity of attraction. Read more

Peter Rainer, 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. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Equal 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. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [An] enticing, weightless divertissement, a distant Gallic cousin to Woody Allen's talky comedies of romantic fumbling. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: If Rohmer is Mouret's closest reference, he has also learned much about smart dialogue and screwball couplings from the 1930s comedies of Hollywood vets like Hawks and Lubitsch, and those of his own countryman Sacha Guitry. Read more

Anthony Lane, 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? Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Shall We Kiss? is a slight movie, but it's also a quietly enjoyable one. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Shall 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! Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: More quirky than wacky, this winning comedy only hits its romantic high when we return to that framing story, the storyteller who won't casually kiss because she knows, damn well, there's no such thing as a casual 'French' kiss. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Impossibly charming and impossibly French, Shall We Kiss? is a comic romance full of rueful musings about fidelity and true love. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Is 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? Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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 more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Faultlessly tasteful but a little stale. Emmanuel Mouret wrote, directed and stars in this whimsical story of temptation and consequences. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This quintessentially French bonbon is both sweet and dry, with just enough complexity to confound the fast-food appetite. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more

Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: While 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. Read more

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Derek Elley, Variety: Emmanuel Mouret continues his winning streak with Shall We Kiss? another Woody Allen-meets-Eric Rohmer romantic comedy in which the young writer-director again plays the doofus lead. Read more

Ella Taylor, Village Voice: Bogs down in the philosophical shallow end and never quite recovers from what's clearly meant to be a deceptively light tone. Read more

Jan Stuart, Washington Post: 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 more