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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Could be great., February 16, 2006
The storyline was great. Looking for the last chapter of a love story that was written years earlier had fantastic potential. I always enjoys a good romantic movie and this designed to be one.
However the entire movie focused on finding and finishing the last chapter and the love between the author for his wife and the desire of the editor to see the book published. The level of expectation was built so high that no ending could possibly live up to the internal fantasy that we all hoped for.
The acting was somewhat bland and understated and through out the film there was a sense of missing something. Having said all this, I loved the movie and continue to watch it however, I also enjoyed sheena.
I would reccommend this to anyone to is a romantic, enjoy
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"I just freaked out and couldn't go through with it!", May 19, 2005
Literature, books, and love are the themes of this dramatically small, but absolutely touching movie. A radiant Francoise Surel (in her first major movie role) stars as Cara Thompson, a keen-eyed book editor. Cara has recently been appointed by a steely Joyce Rothman (Illeana Douglas) to a new position as a copy editor for a major publishing house.
On her first day, she sifts through a selection of dusty manuscripts, which have been buried in her predecessor's office. Over worked and probably under paid, she takes a pile of them home to read in her spare time. Drawn to one in particular, she is entranced and seduced by the passionate love story that leaps from the pages in front of her. But the story remains inexplicably unfinished.
Taking place in Paris, the tale involves Claire, a young girl who, confesses outside a Parisian café, undying and eternal love for her boyfriend (Billy Zane), but then freaks out and runs off. He races after her shouting her name, and distraught he combs the streets of the City, but it's all to no avail as she's suddenly and bafflingly vanished.
Realizing that the story parallels events in her own life, Cara, with the help of Megan, her feisty roommate (Eliza Dushku), embarks on a trip to find the author. Like Claire, Cara had also fallen in love, and like the character in the story, she had also hesitated just at the last moment. Part driven to find the rest of the story, and also driven to settle with her own lovesick demons, Cara eventually finds Philip Naudet, the elderly author of the story. (Terence Stamp).
Now, however, Phillip is a broken and sickly man, an embittered old loner, who is hiding away in the country in the back of a run-down gas station. Shattered after the death of his wife, Claire, the aged writer is slowly dying of cancer. But Cara encourages him to finish his words and Phillip eventually finds strength in his new friendship with his would-be publisher. Cara and Phillip end up forming a close, protective bond, which produces surprising results for them both.
The Kiss is an absolutely lovely mediation on love, and what love actually means. Cara and Phillip are mysteriously drawn to each other, not only through their deep respect for, and love of literature, but also through their shared experiences of once having been in love, but suddenly having lost it. And it is only though their chance friendship that they can both reconcile with the ghosts of the past, and possibly reconnect with respective true loves.
Surel's performance totally anchors this film. With her Annie Lennox-like features, she imbues a gracefulness, elegance, and a sense of innocence that just fills the screen. The camera just loves her. I'm just amazed that she hasn't done more work (there's been nothing since 2003 when this film was made.) Why aren't we seeing more of her? Stamp is also good as Naudet, and his scenes with Surel have a tenderness and intimacy that could only be captured with such an accomplished, flexible and experienced actor.
Lovely, intimate, and touching, and also quite mysterious, The Kiss is not just a marvelous exploration on true love, but it is also an effective account of how fiction can often mysteriously parallel real life. Beautifully observed and sincerely directed, The Kiss is a quiet little gem of a film. Just exquisite. Mike Leonard May 05.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great movie. Eliza Dushku rocks, February 12, 2005
This is the newest movie in Eliza Dushku's career. It's a very beautiful drama, talking the story about a woman that searches for the perfect ending for her book.
The Kiss also features Francoise Surel, Terence Stamp and Eliza Dushku. A must have for all Eliza fans.
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