My Sex Life (...Or How I Got Into an Argument)

In this satiric comedy-drama from France, Paul (Mathieu Amalric) is an assistant professor of philosophy disenchanted with teaching and distracted enough that he can't (or won't) finish the dissertation that would allow him to become a full professor. Esther (Emmanuelle Devos) has been his ...more

A serio-comic epic about late twenty-something stasis, Arnaud Desplechin's third film Comment Je Me Suis Dispute...(Ou Ma Vie Sexuelle) is a humorous, grave, and intellectually rigorous examination of commitment in all forms. Centering on reluctant philosophy professor/career graduate student Paul Dedalus and his small circle of friends and relatives, Desplechin weaves a visual and narrative labyrinth of flashbacks, dreams, and quotidian conversations that reveal facets of Paul's romantic ...more