another fabulous movie from catherine breillat and this time about the difficulty of shoot a sex scene in a movie . use comedy a new genre for breillat we get a backstage view of filmmaking but in documentary style . the character who play the director in the movie be base on breillat and the sex scene in question be take from her early film a ma soeur a be the main teenage actress . but the film and like all of breillat work and be not entertainment alone . it be pepper with philosophical observation on the nature of sexuality as well a demonstrate a devotion to purity ( a oppose to pornography ) that be a cornerstone of breillat work and a devotion to real emotion . we see the director character harangue the young lead actress and actor to bring the best out in them and hypnotise them into the part they need to play and bring out part of themselves that the director can see in them but they can not see in themselves until they achieve the height of act that she demand of them . she make meaningful movie and not titillation and but she show the work that be need to produce this and and so give u insights both into the ( decidedly french ) film make process and the psychology of male female sexuality .