Dreadfully Boring

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Such a simple premise that builds, in such a wonderful, wandering path, to a perfect ending. Don't miss the Easter egg.

This is only the second Breillat film that I've seen and I'm wondering which star from the heavens she dropped down from. What film has ever captured the filmmaking process so perfectly - maybe Truffaut's "Day for Night," or Tom Decillo's "Living In Oblivion?" Not better but as well. What film has ever spoken so truthfully about sex? None, simply none. Who has combined cinema and sexual discourse like this? Nobody. Not Bergman, not Allen, not even Bertolucci. Maybe Lina Wurtmuller to some degree. The first filmmaker was a woman - Alice Guy-Blaché The last filmmaker is a woman - Catherine Breillat. Performances are outstanding. Direction is outstanding.

This movie is a fascinating drama about the Making of a movie. The Actor and the Actress really can't stand each other, but we build up to a scene in which they are to have sex - she for the first time, per script. The actress shows little emotion on or off camera in the plot, aside from she is freezing in the early scenes on a beach. The actor is self absorbed and increasingly defies the direction of the Director, Jeanne. I could not help being drawn in to the drama of 'how are these two possibly going to ACT their way thru a Sex Scene?' That drama in itself becomes more exciting than the actual nudity and foreplay performed for the cameras. Not that Roxane Mesquida isn't lovely and worth seeing naked! However, there is a pretty young stage hand who walks thru a few scenes as an extra. I think that is her in the far left edge of one of the pictures (2 of 9) here in IMDb. I don't even know if this girl is credited, but when she walks by (fully dressed of course) in confident indifference with her short blonde hair -- SHE is Sexy! WHO IS THIS GIRL???

As other users have noted, this movie is not really what you expect from a film billed as a comedy. I enjoy movies about making movies and I think this is definitely worth seeing if you like that genre. But it's not a movie to see if you're in the mood for a comedy, or if you think it's going to be sensuous or sexy, as I found it neither. The director harangues and insults the Actor and coddles the (beautiful but talentless) Actress and flirts with her assistant and often stands around looking troubled, trying to capture her vision (of a young girl losing her virginity) on film. **Spoiler Alert** Apparently her vision is very close to rape, IMO, and I found it extremely off-putting, after waiting an hour and half to *finally* get to it. It's not an especially satisfying film, though I might have enjoyed it more if I'd had the right expectations.