Rotten
Annoying, soporific and, despite its title, singularly humorless.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Sex Is Comedy
Faking it has never been like this.
2002 · 1h 34m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Catherine Breillat
Overview
A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise.
Director and cast
- Catherine Breillat Director
- Anne Parillaud as Jeanne
- Grégoire Colin as The Actor
- Roxane Mesquida as The Actress
- Ashley Wanninger as Leo, the first assistant
- Dominique Colladant as Willy
- Bart Binnema as Director of Photography
- Elisabete Piecho as Continuity Girl
- Francis Selleck as Production Manager
- Júlia Fragata as The set dresser
- Ana Lorena Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Reminds us what a vulnerable undertaking acting can be, and what an intimate, manipulative, caring and torturous act directing is.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh
If Breillat's aim is demystifying how passion and desire are simulated on-screen, then Sex Is Comedy is successful.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
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.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Rotten
Sex Is Comedy is not sure what it's really about, or how to get there.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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