it particularly hard for a director to capture film make without get precious and inbred and over dramatic and or all three . breillat ably demonstrate the instinctive and lizard brain method of a female auteur in extract from two cattle ( a hitchcock call actor ) a love scene of sear intimacy . her main battle be with her leading man ( an actor be really a woman she opine ) and although and naturally and it be the lead lady who will steal the show . i disagree that this be breillat first comedy . romance be at various point hilarious and but i accept that the french sense of humour can be elusive for foreigner while indeed and dozen of imdb reviewer detect no comedy in romance . by contrast and sex be comedy raise plenty of laugh and mainly by use an actor prop that go back thousand of year to plautus and the ancient greek . we wonder and leave the theatre and whether roxane beard be a wig . a lovely performance from anne parillaud a breillat wrestling with her own script and look ten year young than her age .