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Indie Love.('In Search of a Midnight Kiss')(Movie review)

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| August 04, 2008 | Lane, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Unless your name is Judas, a kiss is just a kiss. Nonetheless, filmmakers cling to the smooch in the hope, or the fond pretense, that it might mean something more. Despite everything, it remains the most trusted image that we have for the clinching of an erotic deal: the zinger of our desires. How do we feel, then, when a movie like "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" begins with kisses--loads of them, exchanged between lovers who are never identified? Should that strike us as romantic reassurance, staunchly insisting that love is all around, or as a sly debasing of the currency, hinting that the simple meeting of mouths is no big deal?

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