Sex Is Comedy

2002 Comedy Drama

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 the 15-year-old in the scene being filmed. Sex Is Comedy was screened during the Director's Fortnight at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

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Starring: Anne Parillaud,Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger, Dominique Colladant

 30 Reviews

Reviews

  • Shows a beguiling aptitude for self-mockery in the pursuit of polemic.

    Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

    27 April 2013

  • A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.

    Ty Burr - The Boston Globe

    27 April 2013

  • It's a sweet and light-hearted endeavor that shows Breillat isn't a one-trick pony.

    V.A. Musetto - New York Post

    27 April 2013

  • Sex Is Comedy is not sure what it's really about, or how to get there; the director is seen as flighty and impulsive, the situations seem like set-ups, and we never know what the Actor and Actress are really thinking -- or if thinking has anything to do with it.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    27 April 2013

  • The "comedy" part of Sex is Comedy comes intentionally from cast-crew interaction.

    Allison Benedikt - The Chicago Tribune

    27 April 2013

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