kenjha A director struggles to film a key scene of her movie. This is apparently meant to be an autobiography of sorts for Breillat. Parrault, who made a splash as a ruthless killer in "La Femme Nikita" here plays a very different character. She is actually quite good as Breillat's alter-ego, a director obsessed with getting a sex scene in her movie just right. The whole film builds up to this one scene and it's just much ado about nothing, as Breillat's self-indulgence is transferred to Parrault. There's just too much talk, as she has to sooth the egos of her actors, who behave as if they were doing Shakespeare instead of what appears to be soft-core porn.

Jay Raskin 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.

MBT Toward the end of the movie, one of the main characters says, "Nudity is so boring." That's easy for him to say. He's on that side of the screen.Anything -- nudity, aliens, raindrops against a windowpane -- anything to relieve the boredom and tedious dialog that so many French film makers think is deep and meaningful but which is just annoying. It isn't deep. It isn't meaningful. It's just silly nonsense to endure.What a waste of talent from actors to whom art is everything and yet nothing. Wait. Now they've got me doing it.I'm going to go watch a gangster film.

Danielle 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.