Review by All Movie Guide
All Movie Guide
is neutral about it.
The first film
Andy Warhol screened publicly, Kiss is assembled of several approximately three-minute reels of various couples kissing. The couples are filmed in close-up, so each shot resembles a classic Hollywood "final kiss" scene, but with all context stripped away. Where other films comment on voyeurism, Kiss, by isolating and elongating these intimate moments, attempts to become the cinematic embodiment of it. Its detached point of view, long takes, and obliquely satirical attitude toward classic Hollywood moviemaking introduced what would become the hallmarks of Warhol's film style. Its blasé eroticism would become a recurring theme throughout his filmmaking oeuvre. ~ Tom Vick, All Movie Guide