My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Arnaud Desplechin
Written By: Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Bourdieu
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Denis Podalydès, Jeanne Balibar, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni, Marianne Denicourt, Thibault de Montalembert, Emmanuel Salinger, Fabrice Desplechin
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama
AKAs: Comment je me suis disputé.., Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle)
Country: France
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My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument belongs to 13 collections
1. The Obscure, the Forgotten, and the Unloved (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 14 stars)
2. Titles longer than eight words (public - 2 stars)
3. Cannes 1996 Official Selection (public: moderated by CCLZA - 1 star)
4. French director (public: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
5. Photographed by Eric Gautier (public: moderated by iconogassed)
6. Mubi Europe (public: moderated by Svengali)
7. DtC Doubling the Canon 2021 Nominees (public: moderated by lineuphere)
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9. Lesinrocks - top 100 french movies (private: Thegoodboy - 1 star)
10. 2C (private: twisp)
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| Jan 17 |  |
AFlickering | 6 88% |
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desplechin is my baumbach.
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| Jun 13, 2021 |  |
driscarpin | 84 75% |
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Estreava há 25 anos na França. Paul Dedalus está para Desplechin como Antoine Doinel está para Truffaut, aliás, me pergunto se esse nome de Dedalus não é por outro alter ego famoso do século XX: James Joyce. Em todo caso é um filme muito bom que só peca por sua duração, posso tranquilamente assistir um filme contemplativo de três horas, mas sempre peno com os verborrágicos da mesma duração, não sou do tipo que aguenta gente falando por três horas na minha cabeça. DVDRip MKO.
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| Dec 07, 2020 |  |
Stigma&Style | 40 34% |
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Very disappointed that the Virgin Mary's ovulation cycle in relation to incarnation didn't get a more in-depth discussion! Oh well, how much can you possibly fit in 3 hours when you're too busy failing at developing characters and their relationships?
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| Oct 07, 2018 |  |
larmor | 51 43% |
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It was fine when Rohmer was doing this kind of movie, but after a while, these navel-gazing intellectuals in their late twenties get tiring and annoying. They try to redeem themselves from their character flaws by rationalizing and intellectualizing them, but they fail utterly at it. The difficulty of human life and human communication cannot serve as an excuse for overt douchebaggery.
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| Jun 15, 2017 |  |
JJ1986 | 40 13% |
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Interminable tale of philosophizing and philandering late 20s adults. The characters are so empty that watching it quickly becomes a chore. Only saved at all by the cast.
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| Nov 30, 2014 |  |
JakeAesthete | 98 98% |
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Feels like the missing link between Rohmer and Baumbach? Not quite as stylish as later Desplechin (i.e. less Truffaut-indebted) although it does retain a self-consciously novelistic, literary flair via omnipresent narrator and a sprawling, episodic narrative. That said, it spends more time with a single protagonist rather than exploring his complex interconnected relationships with as much depth as is in Kings and Queen, so the lengthy running time perhaps feels slightly less justified?
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
djross | 74 83% |
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A very good film, but the resemblance to the films of Rohmer is a constant reminder of the sensitivity and confidence with which Rohmer understands and depicts human relations. It is as though this film were therefore an expression of a loss of human understanding (for both the director and his characters) which has taken place in the gap between Rohmer's generation and that of Desplechin, testament to what Bernard Stiegler calls the loss of savoir vivre.
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| Average Percentile 63.57% from 96 Ratings |  |