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- 2015
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
Summary Five suburban couples living in Sydney explore a range of sexual fetishes and deal with the repercussions that come with sharing them.
Directed By: Josh Lawson
Written By: Josh Lawson
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
The Little Death
46
6.6
Where to Watch
Summary Five suburban couples living in Sydney explore a range of sexual fetishes and deal with the repercussions that come with sharing them.
Directed By: Josh Lawson
Written By: Josh Lawson
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
46
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
64% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
46
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
64% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The film investigates a gallery of kinks, fetishes, oddball turn-ons, and pent up sexual repressions like somnophilia (sex with someone who is asleep), dacryphilia (tears and sobbing), unconventional role-playing, and worse. The results are sad and often laugh-out-loud funny.
Alternately silly and provocative, strained and funny.
Generally speaking, the more obscure the fetish, the worse the subplot gets, though they all wear out their one-joke welcome before Lawson inevitably turns up the sentiment and makes the film about love and kids and happy unions.
A broad, goofy primer on the not-quite-cutting-edge of consensual adult sexuality.
The actors are all game and well paired, but flashes of chemistry and an appreciable level of production finesse (courtesy of d.p. Simon Chapman and composer Michael Yezerski) aren’t enough to bring the requisite charge to this flimsy, pseudo-provocative material.
The only sketch that’s inspired is the final one.
Sex comedies work best with light touch, and as the ponderous title (a literal translation of the French term for orgasm) indicates, Australian writer-director Josh Lawson mostly doesn’t have it.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.6
67% Positive
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20% Mixed
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13% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.6
67% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
20% Mixed
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3 Ratings
13% Negative
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Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 6 Nominations
Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
