A Kiss, If You Please - 2007 - 7/10
AKA - Un Baiser s’il vous Plaît // Shall We Kiss?

Uneasy French comedy that straddles between awkwardness and guilt.
A couple meet one morning, make a connection, go on a perfect date - a long perfect date - and wind up in her hotel room.
Along the way, we realize both are in other relationships.
He requests a kiss - she declines. Instead, she offers a story of the consequences of the innocent kiss.

The couple are platonic best friends. She is married, he has affairs.
They always had chemistry, however. The flame never died.
Why did they never date? Marry? Unexplained.
Eventually they make tentative, fumbling moves in that direction yielding to an explosion of passion.
This half of the film innocent, goofy and funny. Before the guilt and fallout.
Most in the room enjoyed the first half of giggles and accelerating heartbeats. Second half, not so much.
Comedy with a bitter aftertaste.
Restrained, almost symbolic set design if you notice those things.