Review of Love & Sex (2000) by Deb S — 12 Aug 2010

Smarter and funnier than Sex in the City. A movie about people making themselves crazy overthinking a relationship, but, for the most part, going along with it all, even when they don't know why. Jon Favreau's character is comedically self-assured in his life as an artist whose slightly disturbing paintings may or may not mean anything at all and which belie his gentle, laidback, philosophical persona, which belies the restlessness and passion lurking below the surface, which resemble something more like his paintings, but still more gentle.

Famke Janssen's character is neurotically living the oversexed successful professional woman stereotype whose worrying about when she will ever meet the one she will want to spend the rest of her life with.

Neither seem to know how or where to steer the relationship or what they are supposed to be expecting from each other, and so it works out. And falls apart. A few times. Until the lessons are learned and double learned and triple learned and the situation resolved.