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Roxane Mesquida
Born: 1 October 1981 Marseille, France
The smoldering beauty got her start working with controversial French filmmaker Catherine Breillant. She played
the virgin
temptress Elena in Breillat's 2001 "Fat Girl" (À Ma Soeur!). She stars opposite Grégoire Colin in Brellait's "Sex Is Comedy." |
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Girl: Take two very naive, very young French girls--one a thin 15-year-old, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), and the other her fat 12-year-old sister, Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux). Picture them as lambs. Add a manipulative older Italian boy, Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). Picture him as the wolf. Witness from close range as the one of the lambs (the thin one) is devoured by the wolf as the other lamb (the fat one) watches in pain but does nothing. The result is FAT GIRL, Catherine Breillat's intense, perplexing, suffocating, grim, terrifying, sickening, dark, plotting depiction of teenage loss of innocence. "Sinister" is what the Italian boy calls what he does to the French girl. "Proof of love" is how the thin girl justifies it. The fat girl, Anaïs, responds by sitting on the beach in her new dress and letting the surf wash up on her as she softly sings sad songs about boredom and death. Later, staring into the mirror, alone together, eye to eye, cheek to cheek, unblinking, the fat and thin sisters calmly share their most hateful feelings for each other. But nothing prepares the viewer for the final blow of the film, which sneaks up with a ferocity that pales the wolf-lamb scenario. Not a pretty picture, Breillat's shockingly realistic work features an optimistic soundtrack that perfects the film's intended confusion of mood and message.
"...An absolute stunner of a movie....Breillat draws delicately nuanced performances from Mesquida and Reboux..." -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will, and can end as it wants, and that its director can make her point, however brutally..." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
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Sex is
Comedy: To call a French filmmaker a provocateur may seem redundant, but feminist auteur Catherine Breillat has managed to shock even her most liberated compatriots. The bad girl of Gallic cinema, Breillat has become known for her graphic and cynical takes on male-female sexual relationships and has faced accusations of onset cruelty. SEX IS COMEDY is the director's witty take on her own mythology. Anne Parillaud plays Jeanne, a thinly veiled stand-in for Breillat herself. Jeanne's new movie is a sex-drenched tale that culminates in a scene that was actually featured in Breillat's controversial FAT GIRL (2001). In the scene, a slick older seducer manages to convince a young, beautiful virgin to submit to his aggressive sexual advances. The director's challenge is to coax her difficult actors into baring their souls, and bodies, in this wrenching, nearly pornographic exchange. Parillaud's Jeanne is a complex character--sometimes nurturing and unsure, and at other times cold and insulting. Her relationship with her gorgeous lead actor, played by Gregoire Colin, forms the emotional center of the film. Their seemingly endless debates about acting, sex, and relationships are combative, yet always flirtatious and sexually charged. Though this comedic take on filmmaking is the director's lightest movie yet, it still tackles larger issues of power, sexuality, and performance in an intellectual, and brutally honest way. |
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Une vieille maitresse (2007) (filming)
Sheitan (2006) .... Eve
Vagues, Les (2005) (TV) .... Célia
Grand voyage, Le (2004) .... Lisa (photo et voix seulement)
Mentir un peu (2004) (TV)
Sexes très opposés (2002) .... Hélène
... aka Very Opposite Sexes (USA)
Sex Is Comedy (2002) .... The Actress
Paradis de Laura, Les (2002) (TV) .... Laura
... aka Carnets d'ado - Les paradis de Laura (France)
Âges ingrats (2002) .... La jeune fille
À ma soeur! (2001) .... Elena Pingot
... aka Fat Girl (International: English title) (USA)
... aka For My Sister (Australia) (International: English title: literal title)
... aka A mia sorella! (Italy)
Gaia (2000)
École de la chair, L' (1998) .... Marine
... aka The School of Flesh (USA)
Marie Baie des Anges (1997) .... Mireille
... aka Angel Sharks (UK)
... aka Marie from the Bay of Angels (USA) |
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