My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
May 1, 1996Release Date
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
May 1, 1996Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Mathieu Amalric
Paul Dedalus
Emmanuelle Devos
Esther
Emmanuel Salinger
Nathan
Marianne Denicourt
Sylvia
Thibault de Montalembert
Bob
Chiara Mastroianni
Patricia
Denis Podalydès
Jean-Jacques
Jeanne Balibar
Valérie
Fabrice Desplechin
Ivan
Michel Vuillermoz
Frédéric Rabier
Hélène Lapiower
Le Mérou
Roland Amstutz
Chernov
Arnaud Desplechin
Director
Marion Cotillard
Student
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Writer
Solenn Jarniou
Pascale
Pascal Caucheteux
Producer
Philippe Duclos
Spiritual Accompanist
Elisabeth Maby
Tatie
Mike Kourtzer
Composer
Paule Annen
Mrs. Chernov
Krishna Levy
Composer
Anne-Katerine Normant
Esther's Friend
Stéphane Fontaine
Cinematographer
Vincent Nemeth
Friend
Éric Gautier
Cinematographer
David Gabison
Diocese Delegate
Dominique Perrier-Royer
Cinematographer
Pierre-Emmanuel Dupire
Children
Laurence Briaud
Editor
Erwan Le Youdec
Children
François Gédigier
Editor
Stéphane Batut
CastingDirector
Jonathan Reyes
Bob (enfant)
Jeanne Biras
CastingDirector
Paolo Sergio Ribeiro
Children
Claude Martin
CastingDirector
Florence Ricard
Children
Antoine Platteau
Art Direction
Claire Gerard-Hirne
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 1, 1996
Original NameComment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle)
StatusReleased
Running Time3h
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (French: Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle)) is a 1996 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It won the César Award for Most Promising Actor (Mathieu Amalric) and was also nominated for Most Promising Actress (Emmanuelle Devos and Jeanne Balibar). The film ensured Desplechin's and Amalric's career launches in the 90s as respected director and actor respectively (although they had both initially worked towards the reverse). Historically it also marks one of Marion Cotillard's very first roles in the industry.
My Sex Life... follows the story of a PhD student and lecturer in philosophy, Paul Dédalus, as he struggles to break up with his longtime girlfriend, has conflicted feelings about his two mistresses - who are also his friends' partners -, and has a difficult time facing a new colleague, appointed head of the "epistemology department", a former friend who dislikes him for reasons Paul cannot remember. The Catholic conversion and religious concerns of Paul's younger brother, Ivan, are a subplot in the movie.
Being nearly three hours long, the movie's representation of a daily life in Paris follows a similar pattern to Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore from 1973, a cult post-French New Wave film lasting three hours and forty minutes. Similar dialogues and epigrammatic lines or quotations on life, love and friendship are found in both works. Maurice Pialat's interest for "realistic" circumstances has been cited by Desplechin as a major influence on his work in general.Other versions of the Paul Dédalus character appear in A Christmas Tale (2008) and My Golden Days (2015), the last one being a much more explicit prequel. These later productions both feature Amalric.