directed
by Catherine Breillat
France 2002
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do we laugh when embarrassed? How do you depict something as intimate as the
sexual act on film? When can you joke and when do you have to insist on being
serious? These are some of the questions Catherine Breillat asks in "Sex is
Comedy". Revisiting the production of her previous film "A ma soeur"
("The fat girl", 2001), Breillat not only leads us thru the ups and
downs of a film production, but also showing sides of herself, that few
directors ever would dare show. It is liberating to watch Breillat doing something light. Where her films have a tendency to become very heavy (almost deadly serious) in their psychosexual deconstruction of human sexuality, she here reflects on both herself as a director and the topic with a smile and humorous distance: "Sex is Comedy" is almost a romantic comedy in tone – Breillat style.  out
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Theatrical Release: June 5, 2002 (France)
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| Runtime | 1:30:36 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1.78:1 Aspect Ratio (cropped from original 1.66) 16X9
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Artificial Eye has cropped the image slightly from its Original Aspect Ration of 1.66:1 to 1.78:1. While this is questionable, it doesn't distort the viewing of the film. |
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