Tuesday Weld in Investigating Sex (2001)

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Cultural heavyweights of the 1920s and ‘30s convene to make a clinical study of human coupling in Alan Rudolph’s witty and sophisticated comedy Investigating Sex (2001). Based on a series of real-life conversations, the film imagines the kind of witty repartee and bold doublespeak that occurred when famous Dada and Surrealist artists such as Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, and Luis Buñuel gathered with an army of steno-scribblers to discuss love, lust, and longing. Fortunately actresses Jacqueline Anderson, Emily Bruni, Julie Delpy, and Robin Tunney keep the proceedings from becoming too clinical by offering graphic examples of the human activity Rudolph puts so deftly under the microscope.