My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument
aka Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle)
First screened in April 2016
Director: Arnaud Desplechin. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuel Salinger, Emmanuelle Devos, Thibault de Montalembert, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Chiara Mastroianni, Denis Podalydès, Roland Amstutz, Hélène Lapiower, Michel Vuillermoz, Fabrice Desplechin, Marion Cotillard. Screenplay: Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu.

Twitter Capsule: Always with Desplechin, I dig the mix of novelistic and film techniques but get bored.

VOR:   Not Desplechin's most essential statement, but his films constantly, creatively attend to shifting relations between language and action, the prosaic and the fanciful.



Photo © 1996 France 2 Cinéma/La Sept Cinéma/Why Not Productions, © 1997 Zeitgeist Films

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B


Awards:
César Awards (French Oscars): Most Promising Actor (Amalric)

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