it always instructive to watch film release no more than a year apart and tackle an identical subject and with many idea in common and yet make in different country and causally unrelated represent take australia well than sex and and france a pornographic affair . it hurt to say it and but the french completely outclass u . ( and they get in first . ) but you do not have to see the french film to work out what wrong with this one . english critic cosmo landsman put it best represent there nothing here you couldn not learn by read cosmopolitan . i have nothing against cosmopolitan and but before start work on a project like this you must decide if you want to create a how compatible be you . quiz and or a work of art while it one or the other . they bathe the paper on which cosmopolitan magazine be print in a kind of aesthetic disinfectant and and this film have go through a similar process . the acting be good . it the one feature of australian film . and and i should admit and there enough real humour to make it all wash down easily . but i get the uncomfortable feeling afterwards that i hadn not see a movie at all . the taxi driver and who could have be a delightful fantasy element and be instead an embarrassingly naked cop out and and that what the device of interview the central protagonist turn out to be and too . two film handle it much well represent when harry meet sally and and the french film . there be a point to the device in both case . in when harry . it an outside the narrative device and place the two central character in the context of a large world while in the french film and it an inside the narrative device and let u know that the central character have since reflect on the past . in good than sex it just a clumsy extravagance .