Amour fou

Un Baiser s'il vous plaît (Shall we kiss?)

Crit

Hey, this is odd: notice anything similar about the movie posters across the lobby from each other at the Criterion--that is, the posters for the films I've seen the past two days? And unlike a lot of posters that depict some moment that doesn't actually occur in the film, in each case the naughty-bit-touching is a key moment for plot and characterization.

This is one of those inevitably-there-will-be-a-vastly-inferior-American-remake French sex farces, one that veers into darkness late but manages to be more compelling when it's more silly. Best friends tempt Cupid by agreeing to have perfectly clinical, uninvolved sex, and . . . aw, you guessed!

Wonderful performance in the enigmatic narrative frame by one Julie Gayet, who looks awfully familiar, but I seem not to have seen her in anything else but the trailer for Mon meilleur ami. Hope to see her again, though.