Kate Mulvany and Damon Herriman in The Little Death.
Sex is always popular on the festival circuit, but rarely is it as fresh and feel-good funny as in The Little Death, a happy surprise from Australia that has been making the rounds this year and getting raves from Toronto to Texas. The title is a translation of la petite mort, the French euphemism for orgasm, and the movie explores five couples in the suburbs of Sydney and what they do to have one. 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. <...>
Josh Lawson is definitely a director to keep an eye on. He hides an element of surprise around the corner of every manicured hedge, and the game ensemble cast full of stars in the making throws themselves into the risky humor of neighborhood
Kama Sutra to create a work of weird, sexy fun—just like the good old days.
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