My Sex Life

It’s like a cross between Rohmer’s wry portrait of people and Paris as they are and Allen’s sophisticated comedies about sex-obsessed intellectuals, infused with a unique youthful energy immediately recognizable as being from the mind of the slightly off-kilter guy who would go on to make Rois et reine. Epic length may actually suit Desplechin (the VHS release is split over two cassettes), or anyway, it is impossible for him to bore me. Focus is not its strong point, but it’s a great meandering, ultimately circuitous ride through the lives of several characters, who are just the sort of fucked-up I like.