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SHALL WE KISS?


DIRECTOR
Emmanuel Mouret

SCREENPLAY
Emmanuel Mouret

CAST
Judith: Virginie Ledoyen
Nicolas: Emmanuel Mouret
Emilie: Julie Gayet
Gabriel: Michaël Cohen
Caline: Frédérique Bel
Claudio: Stefano Accorsi

GENRE
Drama

DISTRIBUTOR
Music Box Films

RUNNING TIME 102’
PRODUCTION France, 2007
RATING Not rated
GAUGE 35mm, DVD (color)




““Shall We Kiss?” gives us storytelling as art. Emmanuel Mouret's romantic drama is expert, intricate, ineffably droll, ultimately provocative and entirely enchanting.”

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal


It’s only a simple, scientific experiment when longtime best friends Nicolas and Judith decide to see what it’s like to be physically intimate with one another. After all, they’re both in happy, fulfilling relationships with other people, they’ve known each other forever, and they could never fall in love… could they? Promising young director and star Mouret constructs his film with humor, suspense, and a keen eye for the dreams and selfdelusions of his thirty-something protagonists. Nicolas and Judith are the last to notice their friendship turning to passion, their infidelity to their partners at home growing increasingly blatant, and their platonic experiment spiraling out of control. But when they do, there’s nothing to do but concoct a wild plan to set up their exes-to-be, in the hopes of carrying on their affair without guilt. This whole sexy, modern story-withina- story is narrated by yet another young woman as sparks fly between her and a mysterious stranger she meets on a business trip. But because of what happened to Nicolas and Judith, no matter how much sexual tension builds between the narrator and the stranger she won’t even give him one single kiss… or will she?

 

 

 

 



 
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