Michaël Cohen wrote the novel, directed the film, and stars in the racy French flick Ça commence par la fin (2010), the story of a couple's disintegrating relationship shown in reverse. The movie is so sexually explicit that even the footloose French banned its showing at Cannes. Unsurprisingly, Cohen wrote, directed, and cast himself into the most sex-plicit parts of the movie, choosing a his co-star none