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Grégoire Colin (The Actor) with Roxane Mesquida (The Actress)

Grégoire Colin (The Actor) with Anne Parillaud (Jeanne)

Anne Parillaud (Jeanne) with Roxane Mesquida (The Actress)

Catherine Breillat at an event for Sex Is Comedy (2002)

Anne Parillaud

Grégoire Colin

Roxane Mesquida

Catherine Breillat

A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other.

Sex Is Comedy

It&apos;s particularly hard for a director to capture film-making without getting precious, inbred, over-dramatic, or all three. Breillat ably demonstrates the instinctive, lizard-brain methods of a female auteur in extracting from two &quot;cattle&quot; (as Hitchcock called actors) a love-scene of searing intimacy. Her main battle is with her leading man (&quot;an actor is really a woman&quot; she opines), although, naturally, it is the leading lady who will steal the show. I disagree that this is Breillat&apos;s first comedy. &apos;Romance&apos; was at various points hilarious, but I accept that the French sense of humour can be elusive for foreigners; indeed, dozens of IMDb reviewers detected no comedy in Romance. By contrast, Sex Is Comedy raises plenty of laughs, mainly by using an actor&apos;s prop that goes back thousands of years to Plautus and the ancient Greeks. We wondered, leaving the theatre, whether Roxane&apos;s &quot;beard&quot; was a wig. A lovely performance from Anne Parillaud as Breillat wrestling with her own script, looking ten years younger than her age.

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It's particularly hard for a director to capture film-making without getting precious, inbred, over-dramatic, or all three. Breillat ably demonstrates the instinctive, lizard-brain methods of a female auteur in extracting from two "cattle" (as Hitchcock called actors) a love-scene of searing intimacy. Her main battle is with her leading man ("an actor is really a woman" she opines), although, naturally, it is the leading lady who will steal the show. I disagree that this is Breillat's first comedy. 'Romance' was at various points hilarious, but I accept that the French sense of humour can be elusive for foreigners; indeed, dozens of IMDb reviewers detected no comedy in Romance. By contrast, Sex Is Comedy raises plenty of laughs, mainly by using an actor's prop that goes back thousands of years to Plautus and the ancient Greeks. We wondered, leaving the theatre, whether Roxane's "beard" was a wig. A lovely performance from Anne Parillaud as Breillat wrestling with her own script, looking ten years younger than her age.

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