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Kiss Me Again

2006, Movie, NR, 103 mins

Kiss Me Again: Review

KISS ME AGAIN
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Free love comes at a price in William Tyler Smith's candlelit dramedy, which puts a Red Show Diaries gloss on its cautionary tale of a menage a trois gone awry. Pudgy, self-centered college professor Julian (Jeremy London, of TV's Party of Five) teaches cultural studies at "New York College" and lives in a super-chichi Williamsburg loft with his stunning, pouty-lipped wife, Chalice (Katheryn Winnick) and bisexual wild-child Malika (Elisa Donovan). Julian, who likes to think of himself as an intellectual iconoclast, gets into hot water with the faculty when he takes a match to an actual Stars and Stripes during a discussion about flag-burning, which prompts a student complaint. But the real trouble is yet to come: Julian develops a wicked crush on exchange student Elena (Mirelly Taylor) but doesn't feel right about cheating. Inspired by an illicit glimpse of Malika and her girlfriend, Tara (Siri Baruc), indulging in a three-way with tattooed rocker Starx (Evan Seinfeld), he cooks up a plan to have his cake and eat it, too. Julian convinces Chalice that introducing another woman into their relationship will strengthen their bond, then persuades Elena to answer their ad in an alternative newspaper as though she were a bicurious stranger. He thinks his erotic experiment is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams when the women get along like a house afire. In fact, he's merely awakened Chalice's long-suppressed lesbian impulses, and soon both have broken the one ground rule they established at the beginning — they're carrying on independent relationships with Elena behind each other's backs. Complicating matters further, Malika and Chalice once had a drunken fling that Malika has never gotten over; when she encouraged Chalice to be more "daring," she wanted Chalice to be daring with her, not some other woman. The whole thing blows up spectacularly just as Julian is preparing to appear before an academic disciplinary committee. Taylor — who, as Ruth Osuna, gave an incendiary performance as an American-born Muslim student of Egyptian descent grappling with far more momentous relationship issues in the crudely effective BEYOND HONOR (2005) — is by far the most persuasive arm of the triangle; Winnick is blandly pretty and onetime heartthrob London is convincing neither as a whip-smart academic nor as an object of desire. The lesson — that three into two won't go — has been learned by other improbably attractive couples in "bold" movies about youthful experimentation and its long-term consequences, but the word never seems to get around. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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