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Sex is Comedy (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 45

Fresh: 32

Rotten:13

Average Rating: 6.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Oct 20, 2004 Limited

Synopsis: To call a French filmmaker a provocateur may seem redundant, but feminist auteur Catherine Breillat has managed to shock even her most liberated compatriots. The bad girl of Gallic cinema, Breillat... To call a French filmmaker a provocateur may seem redundant, but feminist auteur Catherine Breillat has managed to shock even her most liberated compatriots. The bad girl of Gallic cinema, Breillat has become known for her graphic and cynical takes on male-female sexual relationships and has faced accusations of onset cruelty. SEX IS COMEDY is the director's witty take on her own mythology. Anne Parillaud plays Jeanne, a thinly veiled stand-in for Breillat herself. Jeanne's new movie is a sex-drenched tale that culminates in a scene that was actually featured in Breillat's controversial FAT GIRL (2001). In the scene, a slick older seducer manages to convince a young, beautiful virgin to submit to his aggressive sexual advances. The director's challenge is to coax her difficult actors into baring their souls, and bodies, in this wrenching, nearly pornographic exchange. Parillaud's Jeanne is a complex character--sometimes nurturing and unsure, and at other times cold and insulting. Her relationship with her gorgeous lead actor, played by Gregoire Colin, forms the emotional center of the film. Their seemingly endless debates about acting, sex, and relationships are combative, yet always flirtatious and sexually charged. Though this comedic take on filmmaking is the director's lightest movie yet, it still tackles larger issues of power, sexuality, and performance in an intellectual, and brutally honest way. [More]

Starring: Anne Parillaud, Gregoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida

Starring: Anne Parillaud, Gregoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida

Director: Catherine Breillat

Director: Catherine Breillat
Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat
Producer: Jean Francois Lepetit
Studio: IFC Films

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12/06/05
Film Threat
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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.

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06/12/05
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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

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03/22/05
MaryAnn Johanson
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a mistitled disaster

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02/25/05
Christopher Null
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02/16/05
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Sex Is Comedy is a lively, frank and often perceptive anatomy of screen acting and directing: insightful, self-mocking and engagingly alive.

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01/28/05
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

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

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
12/24/04
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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An eyes-rolling, forehead-smacking glimpse through the eyes of an artist in her farcical struggle

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12/22/04
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

Reminds us what a vulnerable undertaking acting can be, and what an intimate, manipulative, caring and torturous act directing is.

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12/17/04
Lisa Kennedy
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.

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12/10/04
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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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.

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12/03/04
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times

Sex Is Comedy is not sure what it's really about, or how to get there.

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12/03/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.

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12/03/04
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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It feels too self-satisfied, but the prickly personalities and relationships have the ring of experience.

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12/02/04
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Curious but small and lackluster film.

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12/02/04
Allison Benedikt
Chicago Tribune
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an off-putting egocentrism...permeates [Breillat's] otherwise intriguing discourse on the relationship between directors and actors

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11/27/04
Laura Clifford
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Movies about movie-making can be unbearably insular, but I can’t recall one that deals so specifically with the difficulties of love scenes without being exploitative.

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11/19/04
Luke Y. Thompson
Los Angeles CityBeat
 
 
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