Sexual Life

Sexual Life
Sexual Life
	Film poster
Directed by	Ken Kwapis
Written by	Ken Kwapis
Produced by	Ken Aguado
Starring	Eion Bailey; Elizabeth Banks; Carla Gallo; Dulé Hill; James LeGros; Tom Everett Scott; Azura Skye; Kerry Washington; Anne Heche;
Cinematography	Edward J. Pei
Edited by	Kathryn Himoff
Music by	Cliff Eidelman
Distributed by	Showtime Independent Films
Release date	June 19, 2004 (Los Angeles Film Festival);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Sexual Life is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ken Kwapis,^[1] who would go on to chronicle modern romantic life in the better-known He's Just Not That Into You in 2009. Produced by Ken Aguado and distributed by Showtime Independent Films. Cast members include Azura Skye, Carla Gallo, Anne Heche, Elizabeth Banks, Tom Everett Scott and Kerry Washington.

It is adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play La Ronde.

Premise edit

Like La Ronde, Sexual Life has an unconventional narrative structure, identified by Charles Ramírez Berg as the "daisy chain plot", in which there is not a single protagonist, but instead one central character links to another.^[2]

Cast edit

Eion Bailey as David
Elizabeth Banks as Sarah
Carla Gallo as Terri
Dulé Hill as Jerry
James LeGros as Josh
Tom Everett Scott as Todd
Azura Skye as Lorna
Kerry Washington as Rosalie
Anne Heche as Gwen
Kevin Corrigan as Phil
Shirley Knight as Joanne
Steven Weber as David Wharton

Reception and awards edit

Variety found its portrayal of the subject matter to be limited, writing, "this semi-comedy of manners and hormones suffers from being much too neat and tidy, aesthetically and dramatically sweeping aside a lot of the messiness that comes with sex."^[1]

The film won the Copper Wing Award for best director at Phoenix Film Festival.

References edit

^ ^a ^b Koehler, Robert (2004-07-08). "Sexual Life". Variety. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^ Berg, Charles Ramírez (2006). "A Taxonomy of Alternative Plots in Recent Films: Classifying the "Tarantino Effect"". Film Criticism. 31 (1/2 (Fall/Winter)): 5–61. OCLC 201594572.

External links edit

Sexual Life at IMDb
Sexual Life at Rotten Tomatoes
Ritrosky-Winslow, Madelyn (2007-08-11). ""Sexual Life" an Interview with Ken Kwapis". The Entertainment Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-31.

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[Variety-1] Koehler, Robert (2004-07-08). "Sexual Life". Variety. Retrieved 2019-05-31.

[Berg_2006_pp._5–61-2] Berg, Charles Ramírez (2006). "A Taxonomy of Alternative Plots in Recent Films: Classifying the "Tarantino Effect"". Film Criticism. 31 (1/2 (Fall/Winter)): 5–61. OCLC 201594572.

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