No need to resist this enchanting, airy trifle with a surprisingly sober twist.

| Dec 14, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The quiet joys of Shall We Kiss? are to be found not only in the observational writing and the pitch-perfect performances but in the way the mood shifts from tantalising foreplay to more serious matters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2009

The influence of Woody Allen is obvious, but Mouret -- though he overdoes the tics and hesitancies of his nervous lover -- manages to make this combination of humour, sex and pain all his own.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2009

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

| Jun 13, 2009

[The] polite inquiry [of the title] pretty well sums up the tone of this featherweight ensemble comedy about French people falling in and out of love.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Shall We Kiss? is not without charms, but the crux of the characters' quandary is about as monochromatic as the clothes they wear.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 14, 2009

This quintessentially French bonbon is both sweet and dry, with just enough complexity to confound the fast-food appetite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2009

[A] delightful and deeply satisfying French confection.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 23, 2009

Impossibly charming and impossibly French, Shall We Kiss? is a comic romance full of rueful musings about fidelity and true love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2009

It's an ode to the absurdity of attraction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2009

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2009

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.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 10, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2009

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2009

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.

| Apr 9, 2009

Gayet and Cohen generate enough heat in their section to upstage the leads.

| Apr 3, 2009

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?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2009