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Reviews 30% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Edgar (Dermot Mulroney) organizes a salon on the topic of sexuality and arranges to use the lavish estate of Faldo (Nick Nolte) as a venue. In light of...
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- Alan Rudolph
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- Dermot Mulroney
Jun 22, 2001 · “Investigating Sex,” the latest head-scratcher from the unpredictable and frequently audacious Alan Rudolph, left a packed closing-night crowd noticeably unsatisfied at the pic’s bow, in the vet...
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After Rudolph received a copy of Pierre's book from actor Wallace Shawn, he and Michael Henry Wilson adapted it as a screenplay. They created fictional characters for the dialogues and moved the setting to New England.Campbell, who played a stenographer, described the film as a "no money, no nothing film, but a really great acting exercise." After ...
Set in the year 1929 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edgar Faldo is a young professor who decides to assemble a group of friends at his family mansion to discuss the topic of sex and its advantages. Edgar hires two young women to work as stenographers to record the daily debates that his friends discuss to scientifically study sex. The two women, the ...
The film received mixed reviews. Film Comment called it "one of the most enjoyable movies of the year," praising Rudolph's screwball comedy-like dialogue. Variety panned it as "too dated, and far too timid, to spark any real exploration of mind or body." Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club, reviewing the DVD release, called the film a "pleasant surprise,...
- Recherches sur la sexualite archives du surealisme by, Jose Pierre
- Ulf Skogsbergh
- English
- Alan Rudolph
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers,...
In the libertine bohemian circles of New England at the end of the 1920's, wealthy mentor Faldo assembles a circle of young men intent upon a curious goal: Purely academically, they intend to discuss sex, openly and without taboos. Two young stenographers- Alice and Zoe -are enlisted to record...
- Alan Rudolph
- Terrence Howard
Overall, Investigating Sex is a surprisingly dull affair that hardly compares with the best of Ruldoph’s work (such as Choose Me or Mrs. Parker and the Viscous Circle). Its stodginess, which attempts to lend an air of legitimacy to these sessions, results in virtual impotency. ** 02-19-02. Jeremy Heilman.
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