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Sex Is Comedy

2002

Catherine Breillat

Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger ...

5.3

125

Drama. Comedy. Romance Jeanne is a director struggling with a difficult sex scene between two actors who can't stand each other. Aided by her loyal assistant Leo, Jeanne is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise. Inspired by Breillat's own experiences (particularly those in "Fat Girl"), "Sex is Comedy" explores the comedy of social manipulations, sex and power that takes place within the confines of a film set.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Breillat] is fascinated by our fascination with sex, and her movies demystify and deconstruct it. That is an interesting purpose, but 'Sex Is Comedy' is not sure what it's really about (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] profoundly humourless, uncompromisingly pompous movie (...) [It has] the most boring, shallow and badly acted sex scene in cinematic history (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Breillat finds fresh inspiration in attempting to de-mystify the creative process (...) A witty, tightly-constructed and clear-sighted work of autobiography"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Though Breillat is a great filmmaker, she tends to wear her theories on her sleeve, so if 'Sex Is Comedy' feels superfluous, exhausting even, that’s because the film does most of the thinking for you (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Breillat examines the filmmaking process with brutal honesty"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A minor, meandering film"	NEU

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