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Love & Sex

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Love and Sex is perhaps my most favorite movie. It has a great cast and excellent chemistry between the two leading actors. It explores one woman's experience of relationships -- from losing her virginity to her high school French teacher to her eventual meeting of Adam (Jon Favreau) -- without skipping a beat. Unlike more popular "romantic comedies," Love and Sex is not about fairy tale romance but rather about the humor in real-life relationships and what happens when those relationships end. Highly recommended!

Well I have just seen this movie today and wanted to checkout what other people thought of it. So I came here and was shocked to see only a few reviews. Does this mean that this film is no good, NO! It means that it will remain something special to all of those who have seen this unexpected treasure. But please, tell your friends, neighbours and countrymen that this little movie should not be missed on any account. Right now I myself am going through a really bad break up with my girlfriend of 6 years. Who I still dearly love very much but we have decided to give ourselfs a little space and time. I can relate to this movie on all levels and it was a breath of fresh air in the romantic comedy genre. Both lead actors show great chemistry on screen and pull off genuine emotion. I have been a big fan of Jon Favreau since Swingers and we really do not see as much of him as we all should do. Famke Janssen is a great actress too, really shinning through. Watch this movie, again and again. It really is a must see!

I 'CHEEESE SANDWICH' YOU ALL!!!!!

This is the part of when harry met sally that was missed, the TRUE relationship interpersonal relationship activity.

I have read all the reviews here on this movie, they are all very accurate. This movie is perhaps the ultimate relationship/couple movie, with one real exception. This is the perfect movie for those couples in REAL relationships, relationships that are very honest and true. I love this movie, it has become one of those movies I pull out on rainy days, just to remember lost love. This is really a bellweather movie, couples that are really and truly in love and honest with each other will love this movie and talk about it over and over again; however, couples who have alot of hidden issues and things they cannot talk about this movie will make them very sad, because they long for the relationship this couple has.

As a fan of movies that have good dialogue, this one is on my list, along with When Harry Met Sally and Before Sunrise. It's a simple movie about finding the right person in life. Isn't that what so many people spend years of dating trying to determine? This movie approaches relationships in a very honest, funny, and refreshing way. The chemistry between Femke Jaansen and John Favreau is great as they go through the ups and downs of being in a relationship. This movie is for anyone in a relationship...or just wondering when they will ever find their special someone.

I got this DVD free in a magazine, and I'm normally very wary of DVDs that get handed out so freely - they're normally really bad! Or not worth the money you paid for the magazine. But this seemed tempting, as it was a romance (my favourite kind), and had Famke Janssen and the brilliant Jon Favreau in it.

When I started watching it, I was entranced straight away. Despite having loads of piracy trailers before the actual movie, and not having much else in the way of extras (only a trailer), I found myself laughing, and nearly in tears at points.

Everyone knows (or at least, I know) Jon Favreau from Friends - he played Monica's millionaire boyfriend, Pete, who then tried to become a World Fighting Champion. He was fantastic in this. Playing an artist this time, who does very surreal paintings. (Someone pulling a severed head out of somewhere for example!) He was fantastically funny, brilliantly neurotic, and apart from the awful side burns, and the curly goatee (not both at the same time thankfully), was also kinda cute looking. In a way where you want to give him a cuddle. Not knee-trembling gorgeous.

Famke Janssen starts off in the film, as a 9-year-old girl, who is in love with the guy who bullies her. (Right) She's kinda geeky looking, and not what you'd call pretty, but what children ever are? She's totally `in love' with this guy, until she tells all to her big-mouthed friend, and ends up in tears when he dumps her. After this, she quite happily admits to having relationships with thirteen men (I'm falling WAY behind by her standards), which she admits to Adam's character over lunch/dinner/something. Later he tells her that he's only been with two women. (Very reminiscent of a scene in an early season of Friends when Monica and Richard are together, and are telling each other how many people they've slept with. Monica's is less than a ballpoint, and Richard's is two) By the end of the movie, this number has risen up to 14 - having a relationship with a Not-So-Bright-Porn-Star-Robert De Niro- loving actor. The whole point of this movie is that Famke's character is a journalist, and has to write an article about relationships - in which she knows more about, how shall we say, giving guys `pleasure', than actual relationships. Most of the movie is done in flashback, as she goes through most of the bad/good relationships she's had, with narration, as the article gets written through her experiences - with lots of cheesy/romantic lines thrown in along the way!

This film goes into what relationships are all about, and how you have to go through a lot of guys before you find the perfect one. It also briefly touches the painful subject of unwanted pregnancy, and then losing the baby anyway. There's also some strange scenes, where they realise they haven't had slept together for 3 weeks, try, and then realise they're "too tired". And then the all too painful break-up. You can work out what happens from there on.

This is a terrific film, to watch as a couple (the guys will probably like Famke, as she appears wearing very little most of the time), or to watch alone, and think about the pain of relationships. Or the good things about relationships. Depends what mood you're in really. The DVD is definitely worth keeping, full of fun, happiness, and sadness all at the time. Once in a blue moon, you will get a free DVD, that is actually really good! It will be a good addition to my growing collection.

Watch out for an uncredited `cameo' by David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends) too!

This was a very good "romantic comedy". I hesitate to use that term, because it usually conjures up visions of cheesy Chick-Flicks. This is a romantic comedy the way it should be, with more comedy and honesty and less cliched moments.
What really drives this movie is the great chemistry between Favreau and Janssen. There are some great, great moments between them, that unlike most romantic films, didn't seem fake or rehearsed.
The film is basically the story of Janssen's character reminscing about all her past relationships, start to finish, and what went wrong. The film doesn't sugar coat relationships, it shows them in an honest, but humorous, light. Her most important relationship was with Favreau's character, and provides the most humor, pleasure, and pain for the viewer.
This was a very well written film, with overall good performances.
I have a few complaints though. First, like everyone else, I wanted more of Janssen and Favreau - they were just that good together. Secondly, the dvd cover shamelessly flaunts it's most recognizable star (Oteri) even though she only has MAYBE five minutes of screen time, and is in no way important to the film. Also, some of the relationships were overviewed too quickly. The film was only 90 minutes long, and could have been another 20 or so and still been very entertaining.
Other than those problems with the film, I would have loved a commentary track on the dvd. I would love to know how much of Favreau's lines were improvised. Also, with a 90 minute movie, I'd imagine there are deleted scenes floating around somewhere, and it would have been nice to see some of them.
If you are looking for a dvd with a lot of great features, plus a very good film, you may want to stay away and try to find it to rent first.
But, if you don't mind getting a bare-bones disc, buy it. For me, the film alone was worth the price.

Valerie Breiman,directs her real life love story with passion and smooth direction. The story is told from the woman's viewpoint-Jamke Jaansen is a beautiful young woman going from one relationship to another until she meets "Mr. Right". This relationship with Jon Favreau, is a lust at first sight scenario that develops into love and a live-in relationship. What happens after two years and the newness and the lust wears off? They split- why work on something that has become a bore?
The couple spend the rest of the movie moving from one person to another trying to find the missing piece that will make them whole. The interesting sidelight is that it is the woman who has had 13 sexual experiences while the man only 2- he attempts to make up for lost time. During the maturing process of their lives and loves they discover that what they really want and need is each other. Luckily each discovers this signficance
at almost the same moment-movie meant for a rainy afternoon.

Romantic Comedy,


Synopsis
Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) is a writer at Monique magazine whose editor assigns her an article on the perfect relationship. She is supposed to draw on personal experience, but Kate is so unlucky in love that she refers to herself as a "relationship leper." As she sifts through the emotional debris of her past, however, flashbacks reveal that she did once meet a great guy--Adam Levy (Jon Favreau), a painter who swept Kate off her feet and fell in love with her in return. Their relationship ended because Adam didn't feel experienced enough for Kate; now he dates bimbos or, if they're intelligent, "bimbo savants." This romantic comedy about neurotic people pays homage to the Woody Allen and Nora Ephron films that paved its way, but director Valerie Breiman makes the story new with an honest, even blunt, script that speaks to a different generation of dating singles. Janssen is beautiful, bright, and vulnerable at the same time, while Favreau reprises the ironic hipster he played so convincingly in SWINGERS.

Theatrical release: August 25, 2000

You wouldn't think so, but Jon Favreau and Famke Janssen have a great deal of on-screen chemistry. I also would not guess that Janssen had the comedic abilities that she displays in this film. The film chronicles a relationship between Favreau and Janssen in its various stages from meeting to the first parts of the relationship to the tough times the break-up, the post break-up trying to make each other jealous, and if I am not mistaken, they do reconcile in the end? It has been about a year since I saw this film, so forgive me if I am wrong. I do know they at least end up as friends. While the concept of the film is nothing new, there is something fresh and charming about the way their relationship develops and how the characters perceive their lives and themselves within and outside of their relationship. Both characters are endearing in their own ways, and you genuinely feel what each is going through. (Also this film boasts a good soundtrack).

This movie was beautiful-- I found myself relating to everything that happened in this film. It is smart, funny, and most of all, so true to real-life relationships. If you've ever dated or been in a long-term relationship, you'll appreciate it more than any fluff-hollywood-crap movie (did someone say Bounce?).