French Kiss - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[riley]

Playing Kate in this movie, actress Meg Ryan would later portray a movie character with the same first name later, when Ryan played Kate McKay in Kate & Leopold (2001).

[tammy]

Kevin Kline had a professor to coach him with the French to speak it as a Frenchman. He studied French during his Jr. High/High school years and a year in college. He didn't learn to speak it until he went to Alliance Française in New York.

[leo]

In the confrontation scene on the beach umbrellas at Cannes, a topless woman (somewhat out of focus) plays in the surf in the background over Meg Ryan's right shoulder.

[leo]

First of two collaborations of actress Meg Ryan and actor Timothy Hutton who would both star in Serious Moonlight (2009) around fourteen years later,.

[aaron]

First theatrical feature film as a producer of actress Meg Ryan.

[alyssa]

Third consecutive back-to-back movie lensed by cinematographer Owen Roizman that was directed by director Lawrence Kasdan after Wyatt Earp (1994) and Grand Canyon (1991). The pair had also previously collaborated on I Love You to Death (1990) which had been their first collaboration.

[violet]

Star Kevin Kline once commented that friend and regular collaborator Lawrence Kasdan took on yet another genre with this movie - the screwball romantic comedy. Kasdan had previously directed such movies in such various genres as the suspense-thriller in Body Heat (1981), the ensemble comedy-drama The Big Chill (1983), the melodrama The Accidental Tourist (1988), the black comedy I Love You to Death (1990), and the westerns Silverado (1985) and Wyatt Earp (1994). Kasdan though had previously written the romantic comedy Continental Divide (1981) but was not that movie's director.

[bryan]

Two years later Meg Ryan starred in a similar romantic movie this time her ex-fiance Addicted To Love (1997).

[christina]

Adam Brooks: The writer has a brief role as "Perfect Passenger" (the guy who is taking his shoes off when Kate first gets on the plane to Paris).

[beth]

As the closing credits roll, Kate (Meg Ryan) asks Luc (Kevin Kline) to sing "that Bobby Darin song" and then begins to actually sing it . . . "Somewhere..." and Luc corrects her to state that it is a French song and begins to sing it in French, "La Mer". That song was originally written by Charles Trenet and then translated into English and recorded by Bobby Darin.

[norma]

"You can't leave Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower." At least twice, Kate misses seeing the tower, once as the car she is in passes the Trocadéro, and next when the tower lights go out at night, just right after she turns her head towards it. Then she sees, reflected in a shop window, the top of what she thinks is the tower, but when she turns to look, the buildings are hiding the entire view. Meanwhile, the window has been opened so that when she turns back, she can't even see the reflection. Finally, when she is leaving Paris, she sees it from the window of the train.

[bernard]

The names of the two French hotels were the Hôtel George V in Paris and the Carlton Hotel in Cannes.

[kristen]

When Kate (Meg Ryan) and Luc (Kevin Kline) are first talking in their room at Cannes, the French song "Verlaine" is playing. The track's lyrics include the wording "les sanglots longues des violons de l'automne blessent mon coeur d'un langueur monotone" which translate into English as "the long sobs of the violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor". These words are from a poem called "Verlaine", and had been used in 1944 to form the code phrases that alerted the Resistance to the Allied invasion of France, and were depicted in the earlier epic World War II movie The Longest Day (1962).

[kenneth]

The movie starred two actors who had both won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Timothy Hutton won his Oscar for Ordinary People (1980) whilst Kevin Kline won his statuette for A Fish Called Wanda (1988).

[michele]

The film was originally titled "Paris Match" until Billy Crystal complained that people would get the film confused with his own movie, Forget Paris (1995).

[leo]

This was the final film shot by cinematographer Owen Roizman. He retired after it was completed.

[darrell]

Second cinema movie directed by Lawrence Kasdan where he did not act as a screenwriter on the picture. The first had been I Love You to Death (1990).

[lonnie]

The slogan for U Can Fly read: "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself".

[lonnie]

About 45 minutes into the film when a distraught Kate (Meg Ryan) is seen speaking to Charlie's mother from a street payphone in Paris, just as Kate says "I know I will triumph," the shot switches to an angle that includes the Parisian landmark "Arc de Triomphe" in the background. Triomphe is French for 'triumph'. Clearly a Lawrence Kasdan in-joke.