Bohemian Cinema By Jonathan Pacheco

Open Roads 2010: “Kiss Me Again”

Tags: Open Roads, Italian, The Lask Kiss, Before Sunset, The House Next Door

The same characters may be around from the Italian film The Last Kiss, but they’re highly unbearable in its sequel, Kiss Me Again:

Admittedly, I quite enjoyed Gabriele Muccino’s 2002 effort, The Last Kiss, finding it entertaining despite its pretentiousness and derivative style. Though it completely ignored many consequences of its characters’ infidelities and betrayals, it didn’t necessarily advocate the forgiveness of these reprehensible acts, indicated by the film’s final sequence that assured us the repercussions of its protagonist’s affair with a high schooler would soon catch up with him. Kiss Me Again, Muccino’s attempt at his own Before Sunset, picks up 10 years later as its characters are haunted by their actions, but are eventually let off the hook by a director who can’t help but give in, like a parent allowing his child to keep the toy he stole from his neighbor if he pouts long enough.