Actors: Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sex Is Comedy
SEX IS COMEDY is a French movie written and directed by Catherine Breillat in 2002.
Jeanne is a film director currently shooting her next movie with two young actors on the Atlantic coast of France. The screenplay of the film implies a lot of intimate and sex scenes she's about to shoot now. But the young actors don't go along well and the first day of shooting is a disaster. Jeanne must mime each scene in front of them and remind them that cinema is not reality. She has to convince them that the task of the actors is to persuade the audience that the couple on the screen is really in love even if the actors don't talk to each other in the real life. Jeanne is also having self-doubts about her work which don't lighten the atmosphere on the set. Tomorrow is the great day : the actor and the actress shall be naked on the bed and they'll have to play an important love scene. Jeanne has even ordered a prosthetic sex organ for the male actor. Just in case.
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Analysis of Sex Is Comedy
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- actor
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- actor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
unclothed?
- full frontal
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- use of artificial tools
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- seeing full frontal--men
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
