Investigating Sex
| Investigating Sex | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Alan Rudolph |
| Screenplay by | Alan Rudolph |
| Based on |
Recherches sur la sexualite archives du surealisme by Jose Pierre |
| Starring |
Neve Campbell Til Schweiger Nick Nolte Julie Delpy Robin Tunney Jeremy Davies Alan Cumming John Light Dermot Mulroney |
| Music by | Ulf Skogsbergh |
| Cinematography | Florian Ballhaus |
| Edited by | John Helde |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates | 18 April 2002 |
Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country |
Germany United States |
| Language | English |
Investigating Sex is a 2001 comedy-drama film written and directed by Alan Rudolph, and stars Neve Campbell, Til Schweiger, Nick Nolte and Dermot Mulroney, and based on the book Recherches sur la sexualite archives du surealisme by Jose Pierre.
After a long delay, the film was finally released on DVD in the US on December 23, 2007, with a different title, Intimate Affairs.
Plot
Set in the year 1929 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edgar Faldo is a young professor who decides to assemble a group of friends at his family mansion to discuss the topic of sex and its advantages. Edgar hires two young women to work as stenographers to record the daily debates that his friends discuss to scientifically study sex. The two women, the sexually active Zoe and the frigid-plain Alice, have mixed feelings being around as Edgar brings over three of his friends whom include, oddball English artist Sevy, German writer and novelist Monty, and fellow professor Peter. Edgar's father, Mr. Faldo, shows up with his new trophy wife, Sasha, to oversee the events as others whom are Lorenz, Oscar, Sevy's wife Janet, and Edgar's disapproving French girlfriend, Chloe, all turn up during different meeting sessions to talk and interact with everyone on the taboos spoken for the "experiment" as Edgar puts it.
Cast
- Dermot Mulroney as Edgar
- Julie Delpy as Chloe
- Robin Tunney as Zoe
- Neve Campbell as Alice
- Jeremy Davies as Oscar
- Alan Cumming as Sevy
- Til Schweiger as Monty
- John Light as Peter
- Nick Nolte as Faldo
- Terrence Howard as Lorenz
- Emily Bruni as Janet
- Tuesday Weld as Sasha
- Jacqueline Anderson as Linda
- Marc Hosemann as Joey
- Joseph May as Roger