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The Little Death

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Australia · 2014
1h 36m
Director Josh Lawson
Starring Josh Lawson, Bojana Novaković, Damon Herriman, Kate Mulvany
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

In this sexual black comedy, a group of loosely-connected suburban couples in Sydney discover for themselves their weird kinks and fetishes. One woman discovers her husband's crying turns her on, while another man discovers a passion for acting in the heat of passion. Darker fantasies are also at play.

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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

It's perched uneasily on a fence separating a rote comic sketch film from something weirder, stranger, and less engaged with offering reassuring domestic homilies.

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New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

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.

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Variety by Justin Chang

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.

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The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

The Little Death never feels remotely of a piece, and is likely to find its proper audience months from now when the individual sketches show up on YouTube.

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Observer by Rex Reed

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.

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The Dissolve by Scott Tobias

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.

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