1964 · comedy · romance
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Directed by Billy Wilder2h 5m1964
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Our read: Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) (1964) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- intimate
- funny
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