On S'Embrasse?

Dir. Pierre Oliver / France / 2001
English Title: Shall W Kiss?

A girl arrives at her audition ten minutes early. Finding it difficult to learn her
lines, she approaches a man nearby for help.....

Available on Adventures in Short Film DVD vol1: http://www.adventuresinshortfilm.com/


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[ruffunitlm]

Lyk dis if u cry evrytim

[abobabobabob]

This would have been far better without the woman at the ending. It's better if it's only implied that someone broke up with him.

[Bushelz]

The best part is that he now knows what to say after that. He was looking down in his hands and I felt like he was unsure, but after reciting those lines with that girl, he knows exactly how it's supposed to go. It's so often in life we're not sure of what our next line is, but it landed right into his lap.

[clairefox22]

when she smiles, it makes her lines so cruel.

[KHunt212]

@ruffunitlm You now hold the title of the best Youtube comment I've seen within context yet.

[louis424]

@jaywhofan an actress asks a real man to recite the script and thus be an actor. at least she thinks he's acting, she thinks she's acting, but in fact he is not acting, for him it is his real scenario, and so she gets caught up in his realness, stops acting, and the scene becomes real for her too, so in the end neither of them are actors. the script the actress reads is coincidentally the same as the man's real situation.

[eoe1177]

@Heyitsstu Its as much about the actress as it is about the man. When you come to a realization like what her character has, that you don't love your spouse / lover anymore, and you have to tell them... you're not angry. She tries the scene first in almost a scolding manner. No! You're sad, bittersweet. She doesn't love him anymore, "despite herself." She tried, she wanted, but couldn't. The smile is both as a defense, a wall to hide behind, and a nostalgic remembrance of happier times.

[TheDarwiniser]

@abobabobabob

absolutely not.

sickeningly poignant when that situation he just acted out turns out to be his situation.

first time you watch it, you miss everything.

second time you get pins and needles.

[Heyitsstu]

@jaywhofan that she recite the script while smiling, a reason that we aren't given until the last 10 seconds. The gentlemen continues forth his lines but instead gazes into her eyes, appearing as a man disheartened by his spouse's confession, . The dismal expression nearly overwhelmed the actress, bringing her to tears as she recites the last sentences of the scene and thus causes her to act essentially as the character depicted in the script. The reason for the advice? He is living it verbatim

[Heyitsstu]

@jaywhofan The actress is reciting a play she is auditioning for, she asks a lone gentlemen to act a character in the script where in the the script, the scene begins with her character and his character as lovers conversing on the foundation of their relationship. Her character confesses that she no longer loves him and that her affection for him has been a slow diminish. His character is shocked, not understanding why she doesn't love him. They recite twice before the gentlemen advises

[titanz05]

wow

[jaywhofan]

I did not understand this at all.