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...Harvard Square are two of the finest examples of a great genre--the French domestic comedy of the middle class: Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart are Claude Berri's Le Sex Shop. Both are the kind of whimsy that'll have you grinning idiotically when you leave, and Malle's, about an incestual mother/son relationship, has great sensitivity as well...
This film maker's isolation is some thing Truffaut carries over into his personal life as well. A slight, intense, diffident man, Truffaut lives in a modest rented apartment in the center of Paris. When he sees friends-like Fellow Film Makers Jacques Rivette or Claude Berri-he sees them at home over a quiet dinner. Divorced from his wife, he has been seen in company with Catherine Deneuve and, most recently, Jacqueline Bisset. "It is apparent from his films that he considers women an important part of his life," says an acquaintance. "But he is so terribly discreet...
Direction and Screenplay by CLAUDE BERRI The Rue St. Denis in Paris has achieved, as the guidebooks might say, a certain renown for the variety of physical entertainment available both to the serious shopper and the casual pedestrian. In this unlikely location, Claude (Claude Berri) runs a bookstore dedicated to more cerebral pursuits. He is a family man, with a sprightly young wife (Juliet Berto), snug in the insulation of his books, but a little concerned that his shop does not flourish...
...effects of making more money and living in the midst of sexual stimuli can be guessed with a minimum of imagination, which is precisely what Director-Writer Berri has brought to bear. He does manage to avoid passing quick moral judgments. In fact, he manages to avoid judgments or insights of almost any kind in his general dither to be cute. Everything in Le Sex Shop is cute: the frustrated husbands and thwarted libertines, the perversions, the jokes, the whores, even the erotic apparatus. For the viewer, the effect of all this simultaneous coyness and brashness is like getting chucked...
Claude's customers, his fellow seekers after sexual peace through profligacy, are all a little shabby, a little desperate, but Berri can see no urgency or meaning in their needs. He treats them all like a crew of school kids caught playing doctor. As a film maker, he lacks what his characters are all trying to find: passion...