Sex is comedy
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Sex is comedy |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 92 minutes |
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| Director | Catherine Breillat |
| script | Catherine Breillat |
| production | Jean-François Lepetit |
| camera | Laurent Machuel |
| cut | Pascale Chavance |
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Sex Is Comedy is a French film persiflage directed by Catherine Breillat in 2002.
Half self-portrait and half film report, he shows a film director as the central figure, who can easily be recognized as Breillat's alter ego and who is making a film with the title “Scènes intimes”. Numerous motifs are inspired by experiences during the shooting of her film My Sister (2001), such as shots on a "summer beach" in cool temperatures, a leg injury that made the director use a crutch, great confidentiality with the assistant director, a stubborn one Leading actor and a defloration scene.
In doing so, Breillat pokes fun at himself, including the image that was spread about her in public. She emphasized that it was "autofiction" and not an autobiography. She did not choose Anne Parillaud because of her external resemblance to her, but because of her talent. The film was shot in Portugal. Breillat blamed the weather and the wrong choice of cameraman for the partial failure of the film.
action
The film director Jeanne is shooting her latest film, which is difficult. Although it is cool in winter, there is a summer bathing scene by the sea. The leading actress and the leading actor can't stand each other and have to give a passionate kissing scene. Jeanne is now at war with the main actor, whom she herself chose because of his charisma, because the freedom-conscious young man escapes the director's lust for power through all sorts of whims. In addition, one of her legs is in a cast.
In numerous conversations, especially with her loyal and skilled assistant director Léo, Jeanne explains her philosophy of filmic work. She can't stand actors being docile only as long as they're applying for a role. Once they got them, she would be completely dependent on them as a director. After the actor refused to take off his socks during a simple love scene, Jeanne fears that he and the actress will refuse to undress for the whole sex scene, especially since she forgot to mark it accordingly in the script and the contracts do not include any nude scenes. The actor wears an artificial erect penis in the studio, which the trick specialist Willy attached to him. Before the recording, Jeanne sends everyone away from the stage in order to desperately redesign the scene because what has been written no longer makes sense to her. She is not satisfied with the first recordings of the sex scene - in which a girl is deflowered - because, in her opinion, the actors have no idea what is going on. Finally the actress surrenders to intense feelings during the recording until she is dissolved in tears. Jeanne is completely moved and carried away and hugs her deeply.
reviews
Claire Clouzot, author of a book about Breillat and her cinematic work, found the mise-en-scène poor in expression and the actors' play less intense than in other of her films. Anne Parillaud does not manage to instill life force in her Breillat imitation, she plays transparently and without magic, and Grégoire Colin remains below his possibilities. However, unique to a movie-within-a-movie, it shatters legends by avoiding the spectacular and simply showing people at work. “ Sex Is Comedy is a size smaller than the previous films. But it has the advantage of tracing a self-portrait of Catherine Breillat while filming. "
The film service found the film "yawning boring", where humor flares up, it goes out quickly.
The verdict on film-rezensions.de was more benevolent : "Sex Is Comedy is a warm homage to filmmaking, an homage that does not pay tribute to the successes and moments of happiness in a production, but to the problems and struggles."
literature
- Claire Clouzot: Catherine Breillat. Indécence et pureté . In: Cahiers du cinéma, 2004, ISBN 2-86642-285-6 , pp. 115–122
Web links
- Sex Is Comedy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claire Clouzot: Catherine Breillat. Indécence et pureté . Cahiers du cinéma, 2004, ISBN 2-86642-285-6 , pp. 115-122
- ↑ Margaret Koehler: Hope dies last . Cannes report in film-dienst No. 13/2002, p. 56
- ↑ Sex is Comedy at www.film-rezensions.de