Investigating Sex

Investigating Sex is a 2001 comedydrama 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.

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 frigidplain 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. Edgars father, Mr. Faldo, shows up with his new trophy wife, Sasha, to oversee the events as others whom are Lorenz, Oscar, Sevys wife Janet, and Edgars 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.

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