Sleeping with Other People

Feu roulant de situations cocasses et de dialogues aussi lucides que désopilants, cette comédie sentimentale, mise en scène avec vivacité, doit beaucoup à la belle chimie opérant entre la pétillante Alison Brie (The Kings of Summer) et le sympathique Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses).

Le charme différent mais complémentaire des deux interprètes principaux, Allison Brie et Jason Sudekis, capte facilement l'intérêt dans ce parcours émotionnel où les détours et les arrière-plans contiennent assez de surprises pour que l'issue prévisible soit dignement retardée jusqu'à un générique final aux allures grivoises.

But if the film fulfills its duty by providing emotionally the romcom equivalent of a money shot, it delays the gratification in interesting ways. And even if the supporting characters are stock types for the genre - the gently bickering married couple who look on smilingly, the zinger-dispensing gay best friend - they're well drawn enough to add heft and credibility to the film's overall smart-mouthed, New York sophisticate milieu.

Essentially an updated When Harry Met Sally … with texting (or, as Headland described the characters at the Sundance preem, « with a–holes »), two quippy New Yorkers spend more than 90 minutes trying to answer whether a man and a woman can be friends without romance entering the picture.

There's a kind of headlong artist who works quickly, in an agitated state, not always knowing what he or she is going for but knowing when it's gotten. That's how I think of Leslye Headlong - sorry, Headland - writing the romantic comedy Sleeping With Other People. 

Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie Lead Smartest, Bawdiest Rom-Com Since Bridesmaids.

Headland doesn't know quite how to wrangle her ending, and Lainey and Jake's chemistry feels more like one of those burning-log videos than a real Antony-and-Cleopatra blaze. Still, it's a smart, flawed movie about smart, flawed people.