Inspired by the making of her previous drama A Ma Soeur!, director Catherine Breillat casts Anne Parillaud as a helmstress who finds shooting her film's big sex scene more grind than bump. She has to placate her actor's (Grégoire Colin) oversensitive ego while avoiding exploiting her young leading lady (A Ma Soeur!'s Roxane Mesquida).
Forget the title: apart from a large prosthetic wanger, there are precious few absurdist smirks here. Instead, we wallow around in lots of ponderous, self-analytical dialogue before climaxing with an incredibly feeble portion of rumpy. A mildly intriguing squint at filmmaking it might be, but if Sex is an attempt to eyeball the female director's dilemma in a phallocentric medium, then it's a pretty limp effort. It's as if, in aiming to make a statement, Breillat has forgotten to make a movie.
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