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Love & Sex
Spot-on romantic comedy starring Famke Janssen as a journalist reminiscing High Fidelity-style when threatened with the sack. With great chemistry, Swingers boy Jon Favreau plays the on/off love of her life
This is how romantic comedy should be. The stars aren't distractingly massive, the script is sharp and savvy and it'll make you chuckle as you relate to the characters' predicaments, which are based in the accessibly everyday. Kate (Janssen) is an LA women's mag hack. Arriving late for work, her boss tells her she's been sacked - but can earn her job back if she improves on her jaded, cynical copy and delivers a decent love and sex-oriented story by the end of day. Sitting down to work, Kate reminisces about sundry dubious past loves, from her school French teacher to a straight-to-video action star. However, it's artist Adam (Favreau), who she'd met at one of his exhibitions, dumping her own date in the process, who has been most important in her life. Love & Sex works like High Fidelity, but from a woman's perspective. And it not only has a star in common with Swingers (Favreau), it similarly has a realistically humourous perspective on twentysomething relationships. Verdict It's a simple film, occassionally simplistic, but the direction is light and Janssen and Favreau's perfect chemistry provides a winning verve |
