The Little Death

2015 "A little weird, a little kinky, and a little twisted."
7| 1h36m| R| en| More Info
Released: 26 June 2015 Released
Producted By: Head Gear Films
Country: Australia
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A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.

Genre

Drama, Comedy, Romance

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Director

Josh Lawson

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Head Gear Films

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The Little Death Audience Reviews

Alicia I love this movie so much
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Jacques Du Rand I felt so deeply moved after watching this lightly treated, yet deeply moving film that I could not wait to recommend it to my friends. The writing is eloquent, the production value is simple yet graceful. The stories are flawlessly emotional, deep and meaningful without being sentimental and clichéd. Lighting, camera work costume and sets all contribute to making you feel you really can be part of these stories. The reality is solid and the characters are humanly real at just with just the right touches. There is something that anyone out there will be able to relate with in these characters. The story centres around 5 different couples and they are weaved together seamlessly without you feeling at any point that you are being raced around to different places and yet at the same time you do not feel that they have been forced together. Sex and sexuality has become such a headline in topics in the media, film and just about everywhere today. I have never seen it dealt with with so much taste, sensitivity and respect. A gentle approach to that little death that sits deep within us all.
writetopcat I like this film. I will say that Bojana is the girl for me! Oh yeah, most of the guys in the film play loser characters but in a funny way. In two of these cases, the relationship really suffers because the partners are not honest with each other, or one of them is not. They cannot bring themselves to be honest about what turns them on. The guy trying to use role playing to put excitement in their sex life could not be more clueless; after an initial successful playtime he begins to think the idea is to try to become an actor rather than to spice up sex with his girl. In real life, anyone that clueless has no chance of keeping a relationship going with a girl. I love Bojana and her rape fantasy. Her guy is a good decent guy who, once he comes to understand what his girlfriend's fantasy is all about, does the best he can to make it good for her. And every guy would love to find a girl as sweet and into sex as she is. One girl is sexually turned on when she sees her boyfriend crying, and she uses all sorts of manipulations to make him cry. She wants to tell him the truth but.... you will see. One guy is aroused by seeing his wife sleeping. I won't give it away.
Dex Sinister Shot as a series of vignettes, the film is quite uneven. It is very loosely tied together by a man canvassing the neighborhood to inform people that he's a registered sex offender, using a unique and amusing device to distract them from his message -- by gifting nostalgic cookies that evoke happy childhood memories, that are long- discontinued because they were racist (an American equivalent would be "little black Sambo" cookies, if such had existed). This is the first film for the writer / director, and it seems quite obvious that he took a psychology class on Deviant Sexual Behavior, utterly didn't understand the material, formed the conclusion that anyone with out-of-norm sexual interests is doomed, and decided to write a comedy about the subject. Four-fifths of it doesn't work, (unless you like your comedy about people whose lives and relationships are falling apart due to lack of communication) and the end appears to have been desperately cobbled together because he ran out of inspiration.Apparently, there's no Internet in modern Australia, so no one can use it to find out anything about exploring non-standard sexuality, nor is there any open and honest communication between long-standing couples, such that they could discuss their desires in a productive way. Therefore, the "comedic" elements of the film consist of increasingly desperate spouses discovering an interest that excites them, then spiraling out of control and destroying their relationships while trying to either trick their significant other into satisfying their interest, or complying with that interest so outlandishly that it meets with disaster. Or both. The saving grace of the film (and the only reason I didn't rate it a "3", is the beautiful and luminous 5th vignette about the public service sign-language-interpretation-for-the-deaf operator who inadvertently gets stuck interpreting a call to a phone sex line by a deaf person. Because the writer didn't understand the paraphilia of making obscene phone calls, he wasn't able to make "light" of it, and instead the skit becomes about two people making an hauntingly- intense, if brief, connection while coping with an awkward situation. If the entire movie had been like this one skit, it would effortlessly have been a "10".
Kneto Magneto The epitome of a good romantic comedy is usually a Woody Allen for me, and even though I also enjoy the cheaper flicks, I didn't quite think this film would come close to the former, but it does. This film is heart warming and very cleverly written. It was (actually) touching at times and in general really funny. One would think, since it tackles the subject of sex, there would be at least a couple of dumb jokes in there, but there aren't, it's quite amazing. Through it's non-linear writing the movie stays interesting until the end. The acting of all parties involved was stellar!And here comes my spoiler: it's partly tragic! How refreshing, to not sit through a movie that is completely foreseeable and relies on poor plot twists the closer it comes to the end, just in order to wrap up everything nice and neatly. The makers consider the viewer mature enough to not be completely at loss when there is not "happy end" spelled out at the end, figuratively and literally. (And yet there is a happy end...) I can see that some people might have trouble with these open ends for some of the story lines, but they ultimately make the film believable, and, to me, staying realistic is a desirable quality in film and not of disadvantage. Seeing this in a romantic comedy is a healthy change from the norm.