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Catherine Breillat (writer)
Release Date:
5 June 2002 (France)
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A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other. full summary | add synopsis
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(From The Guardian - Film News. 2 December 2009, 2:41 AM, PST)
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(From The Guardian - Film News. 2 December 2009, 2:41 AM, PST)
IFC Films to Stream Content Through Netflix
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Anne Parillaud | ... | Jeanne |
| Grégoire Colin | ... | The Actor |
| Roxane Mesquida | ... | The Actress |
| Ashley Wanninger | ... | Leo, the first assistant |
| Dominique Colladant | ... | Willy |
| Bart Binnema | ... | Director of Photography |
| Yves Osmu | ... | The sound engineer |
| Francis Seleck | ... | The production manager |
| Elisabete Piecho | ... | Continuity Girl |
| Francis Selleck | ... | Production Manager (as Francis Seleck) |
| Diane Scapa | ... | The production designer |
| Ana Lorena | ... | The make-up artist |
| Claire Monatte | ... | The other make-up artist (as Claire Monnatte) |
| Arnaldo Junior | ... | The chief electrician |
| Elisabete Silva | ... | The boom operator |
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Scènes intimes (France) (working title)
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Rated R for strong sexual content including graphic nudity and dialogue.
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92 min | France:94 min
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Iceland:16 |
Italy:VM14 |
Netherlands:16 |
Finland:K-15 |
France:U |
South Korea:18 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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References À ma soeur! (2001)
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Sex is Comedy (2002)
*** (out of 4)
French film from the controversial Catherine Breillat is more a companion piece to her masterpiece Fat Girl than a film on its own. In this film, a director (Anne Parillaud) is having trouble filming a sex scene because her actor (Gregoire Colin) and actress (Roxane Mesquida) can't stand one another. That's pretty much the entire story but the film is so much more than that because it really gives us a behind the scenes look at what goes on during filming such a scene. As with the director's next film Anatomy of Hell, this one here didn't get very good reviews but I was totally captivated by it. I'm not sure what it is but Breillat can make just about anything seem real and interesting. It's clear that this sex scene being shot is her personal experience from the filming of Fat Girl. The sex scene here is the same one from that film and the actress here is also the same one used in that film. The performances by the three leads are all very good but the movie belongs to Parillaud as the director being tortured by her actors. Parillaud really nails the role as the frustrated director willing to do anything to get the scene in the can. I think the film works best if you've seen Fat Girl because you can watch the filming here and know what eventually came from it. It's rather interesting watching this film and seeing what all went into making Fat Girl and more clearly, what it took to pull off the sex scene in question, which is one of the most haunting yet beautiful ones that I've seen. This film certainly isn't about sex and there's no comedy to be found but it is about a director trying to get both out of her actors.