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My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
"Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle)" (original title)

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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 ... See full summary »

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Paul Dedalus
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Esther
Emmanuel Salinger ...
Nathan
Marianne Denicourt ...
Sylvia
Thibault de Montalembert ...
Bob
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Patricia
Denis Podalydès ...
Jean-Jacques
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Valérie
Fabrice Desplechin ...
Ivan
Hélène Lapiower ...
Le Mérou
Michel Vuillermoz ...
Frédéric Rabier
Roland Amstutz ...
Chernov
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Solenn Jarniou ...
Pascale
Philippe Duclos ...
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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? Is he avoiding the despairing life his father can't escape from ? Written by David Morgans <in2023@mail.wlv.ac.uk>

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17 September 1997 (USA)  »

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Director Arnaud Desplechin originally wanted to name the movie "Comment je me suis disputé avec Éric Barbier" (How I Got Into An Argument With Eric Barbier), as a dig at former colleague Eric Barbier, also the basis for movie character Frédéric Rabier. A justice decision prevented him from using the full title, hence the ellipsis and the added subtitle. See more »

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...like a hole in the head.
7 June 2000 | by (dublin, ireland) – See all my reviews

James Joyce may have been the greatest writer of the 20th century, but his altar-ego, Stephen Dedalus, is one of literature's great bores, a self-regarding intellectual who gets so lost in a swamp of second-hand ideas he does not know how to live life, and where one line will do, will speak reams of dense, circular, allusive cant.

Ditto his namesake Paul in this film, with whom we have the privilege of spending three hours, as he talks, makes a mess of his life, talks, makes a mess of his career, talks, makes a mess of his relationships, and talks. 173 minutes. Like Stephen, his problems with writing are linked to his problems with sex. This is a key film of the Young French Cinema, which favours the flat filming of dozens of bright charmless young things drinking coffee and talking about Wittgenstein. Great.


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