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Sex Is Comedy [DVD] [2003]

DVD ~ Anne Parillaud
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger, Dominique Colladant
  • Directors: Catherine Breillat
  • Writers: Catherine Breillat
  • Producers: António da Cunha Telles, Jean-François Lepetit
  • Format: PAL
  • Language French, Portuguese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Dec 2003
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00011FXK0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 45,493 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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.

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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Behind the scenes look at film-making, 6 Sep 2005
By Mr. Steven Rhodes "sjr36" (Hertfordshire) - See all my reviews
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The film shows the Perillaud the director's attempts to inject some passion and feeling into a sex scene between an actor and an actress who are not attracted to each other. More comic-tragedy than a comedy, other than the mildly amusing fake penis.
Slow in places but it provides some interesting insights.
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13 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars An Abosolute movie disaster, 25 Aug 2005
By Mr. S. Paul "suvshi" (Glasgow UK) - See all my reviews
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Weak story and and poor filmplay....neither there is sex nor any comedy
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Subtlety, 27 Dec 2008
By words with wonder (Huddersfield, UK) - See all my reviews
Overall the film is fairly bland and nothing much happens. The relations with characters is fairly limited and your not left with much depth.

The final scene sums it up for me. The writer/director has been grooming her cast, especially Grégoire Colin, to prepare for a sex scene that is described by the director to be full of love and passion; the two actors hate each other. The final scene derails with The Actor pronouncing "all girls do it from behind" and then dabbles in her anus. LOVE, PASSION, the girl is crying her eyes out by the end. Do you think there is a relation between what the director is trying to achieve through out the film and what actually happens at the end?
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