Sex Is Comedy

Shows a beguiling aptitude for self-mockery in the pursuit of polemic.Read Full Review »

Breillat's first foray into comedy is playful, whip-smart and far breezier in both tone and look than the stylized gender polemics she's known for.Read Full Review »

A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.Read Full Review »

Parillaud's performance is sharp on its surface and soft at its core. And if Jeanne truly is Breillat's alter ego, she is a pitiless self-portrait.Read Full Review »

By Breillat's usually dire standards, this is practically a laff riot, and if you want to see her funniest, most accessible movie, this is the one to watch.Read Full Review »

Sex Is Comedy is not sure what it's really about, or how to get there; the director is seen as flighty and impulsive, the situations seem like set-ups, and we never know what the Actor and Actress are really thinking -- or if thinking has anything to do with it.Read Full Review »

The film's central flaw is that the characters are haphazardly developed, and don't come across as more interesting than the props.Read Full Review »

Enjoyable if light, until it becomes apparent that Breillat is not simply waxing narcissistic but fashioning a simultaneous critique, explication, and demystification of the lengthy, near-single-take defloration that is Fat Girl's centerpiece.Read Full Review »

The result is a minor, meandering film.Read Full Review »