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Sex Is Comedy (2002)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 14

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63

Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 7

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 4,129

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Catherine Breillat's Sex is Comedy concerns a female film director, Jeanne (Anne Parillaud), who is attempting to film a sex scene in her new movie. Complicating the already emotionally difficult shoot is the fact that Jeanne and her lead actor (Grégoire Colin) are sexually involved. The scene being shot echoes with a scene in Breillat's previous film, Fat Girl, adding to the supposed "reality" of the situations presented in the film. Roxane Mesquida rounds out the cast as the actress playing

Feb 22, 2005

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Annoying, soporific and, despite its title, singularly humorless.

December 24, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Reminds us what a vulnerable undertaking acting can be, and what an intimate, manipulative, caring and torturous act directing is.

December 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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If Breillat's aim is demystifying how passion and desire are simulated on-screen, then Sex Is Comedy is successful.

December 10, 2004 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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Sex Is Comedy is not sure what it's really about, or how to get there.

December 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.

December 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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Curious but small and lackluster film.

December 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Takes an absurdist approach to a sophomoric subject and wrings real laughs from it; a terrific comedy about lust, filmmaking, and the human psyche at its most clandestine.

June 12, 2005 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment

[H]olds multiple mirrors up to itself, creating a neverending series of reflections and self-referents...

March 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
Flick Filosopher

a mistitled disaster

February 25, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

A dry and witty cinema verite-style film that has the feel of an unscripted behind-the-scenes documentary.

February 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Sex Is Comedy is a lively, frank and often perceptive anatomy of screen acting and directing: insightful, self-mocking and engagingly alive.

January 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

An eyes-rolling, forehead-smacking glimpse through the eyes of an artist in her farcical struggle

December 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | Comment
Arizona Daily Star

If you sometimes have the feeling French films are made by the most spoiled and self-involved upper-middle-class twits imaginable, it might be because of such films as Sex Is Comedy.

December 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Boston Herald | Comment
Boston Herald

In Jeanne's world, and Breillat's, filmed sex is no ordinary eye candy. For their characters, it's an admission of a dark, complicated interior life that only the bravest of actors, finally, can expose on screen.

December 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times
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Audience Reviews for Sex Is Comedy

A movie about making a movie. The director in the film tries everything from cajoling to befriending to get a sex scene correctly played in her film. The last scene of this movie is the filming of that sex scene in the movie. I gotta say, it looks like they got it done right.But this movie seemed to take too long.

January 7, 2009
Redlats

Super Reviewer

Disappointing work from French stalwart Breillat? Afraid so. Though highly interesting on paper, the execution of Sex Is Comedy falls well flat. The plot circles around (it might as well be a making of) A Ma Souer, her 2001 emotionally upsetting drama, regarding the difficulty of creating a sex scene between two

February 1, 2007
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