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83Shows a beguiling aptitude for self-mockery in the pursuit of polemic.
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80Those who are already in her (Breillat) camp will find much to feed on in this at once intellectualized and accessible, documentary-style peek inside the head of a passionately driven woman and artist.
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80When she (Breillat) succeeds, as she does in "Fat Girl" and in the final minutes of Sex Is Comedy, the impact can be overwhelming for filmmaker and audience alike.
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80Breillat'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.
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80So perversely enjoyable it gives the lie to her (Breillat's) image as a serious, politically incorrect purveyor of pornographic instincts.
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75It's a sweet and light-hearted endeavor that shows Breillat isn't a one-trick pony.
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75A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.
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75Mostly, constant little reminders show that Breillat knows the business of movies in her bones. You can learn from it and enjoy it -- two things I never thought possible to say about a Breillat film until now.
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70Breillat also offers sharp insights into the love-hate relationship between directors and actors.
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70Parillaud'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.
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70By 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.
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70It opens fissures through which we can glimpse oddities and strains in film directing and acting.
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67It feels too self-satisfied, but the prickly personalities and relationships have the ring of experience.
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63Sex 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.
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63The film's central flaw is that the characters are haphazardly developed, and don't come across as more interesting than the props.
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63This is amusing, and even poignant in the final moments.
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60It captures both the exhilaration and tedium of the filmmaking process--and of looking for and finding passion wherever it might be.
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60Enjoyable 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.
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50The "comedy" part of Sex is Comedy comes intentionally from cast-crew interaction.
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50Talky and mostly humorless, but interesting as a reflection of Breillat's experiences directing her own popular film "Fat Girl" in 2001.
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50A strange creature, a narcissistic mock documentary.
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50The result is a minor, meandering film.
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50A not terribly creative movie about the creative process.
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25Annoying, soporific and singularly humorless.
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JefferyS.1One of the most insufferable movies I've ever sat through half of. Was this a comedy? It certainly wasn't dramatic.
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