Ana Lorena, Anne Parillaud, Arnaldo Junior
How true! Film director Jeanne (Anne Parillaud) is obsessed with directing a young actress (Roxane Mesquida) and actor (Gregoire Colin) in a dicey and difficult sex scene. Aided and abetted by her loy...( read more
)
DVD Release Date: February 22, 2005
Get It:
Stats: 226 reviews
Your Rating
Flixster Reviews (226)
-
January 7, 2009A movie about making a movie. The director in the film tries everything from cajoling to befriending to get a sex scene correctly played in her film. The last scene of this movie is the filming of that sex scene in the movie. I gotta say, it looks like they got it done right.
...( read more) -
-
February 13, 2007Disappointing work from French stalwart Breillat? Afraid so. Though highly interesting on paper, the execution of Sex Is Comedy falls well flat. The plot circles around (it might as well be a making of) A Ma Souer, her 2001 emotionally upsetting drama, regarding the difficulty of...( read more)
-
May 2, 2008This is like watching funny porn...except its not funny or sexy. It's just weird.
-
-
-
-
May 28, 2008I don't know what to say about this movie. It makes no sence. I have watched two times and still dont understand what it is about. I was lost. Looks like the movie is about a film trying to do a sex scene. Okay. Hmmmmm..... I don't know.
-
February 22, 2008Quite funny in some parts, and really illustrated the development of a film or a scene. Also, it showed a different relationship French directors had with their actors compare to Americans.
-
February 9, 2008Probably Catherine Breillat's weakest film - it is essentially a behind the bedroom scenes of her most famous work, "Romance". There is some funny stuff here, and some interesting deconstructions of cinemas scopophilic gaze.
Critic Reviews
December 3, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
December 3, 2004
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking. full review
October 20, 2004
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Sex Is Comedy offers us a window into the way Breillat works. full review
October 20, 2004
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Rather than delve into the clinical details of sexual desire and behavior, Catherine Breillat's reflects on what it means for a filmmaker to conduct such an inquiry. full review
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
All Rotten Tomatoes content is used under license from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes, Certified Fresh, and the Tomatometer are the trademarks of Incfusion Corporation, d/b/a Rotten Tomatoes, a subsidiary of IGN Entertainment, Inc.
