It's refreshing to see this side of Breillat, a self-reflective artist whose evident anger over the sexual state of the world doesn't entirely subsume her, or her humanity.
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10/20/04
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Sex is Comedy (2004)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:32
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.4/10
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... [More]
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Gregoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
Director: Catherine Breillat
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Reviews for Sex is Comedy
Top CriticIt feels too self-satisfied, but the prickly personalities and relationships have the ring of experience.
12/02/04
Curious but small and lackluster film.
12/02/04
Top CriticMore intriguing than it is entertaining.
10/19/04
Top CriticYou so won't care.
11/12/04
A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.
12/03/04
Top CriticBreillat's first foray into comedy is playful, whip-smart and far breezier in both tone and look than the stylized gender polemics she's known for.
11/12/04
Top Critican off-putting egocentrism...permeates [Breillat's] otherwise intriguing discourse on the relationship between directors and actors
11/27/04
An insightful glimpse into the mechanics of filmmaking.
05/27/03
Sex Is Comedy is not sure what it's really about, or how to get there.
12/03/04
Top CriticTakes 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.
06/12/05
Breillat offers sharp insights into the love-hate relationship between directors and actors and a fascinating glimpse into the particular methods of a notoriously provocative filmmaker.
10/21/04
Shakespearean in its complexity, an on-location As You Like It, brilliantly written and cleverly directed.
10/23/04
Auto-critique or ego trip? Sex Is Comedy is a little bit of both—sadly more of the latter.
06/15/04
This is amusing, and even poignant in the final moments. But Breillat just can't help herself.
11/12/04
Top CriticThose who are already in her camp will find much to feed on in this at once intellectualized and accessible, documentary-style peek inside the head of a passionately driven woman and artist.
11/11/04
The director is an irrepressible fount of complaints, theories, and lofty pronouncements.
10/12/04
Top CriticAs usual with Breillat, not much happens outside the boudoir.
11/12/04
Top Critic[H]olds multiple mirrors up to itself, creating a neverending series of reflections and self-referents...
03/22/05
Reminds us what a vulnerable undertaking acting can be, and what an intimate, manipulative, caring and torturous act directing is.
12/17/04
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