Gosh I loved this.
Made in Sydney by Australian actor and now director, Josh Lawson, this film is charming, funny, poignant and unpredictable.
It follows a bunch of couples in suburbia whose stories are largely independent though they do intertwine a little. For those unaware, 'the little death' is a euphemism for orgasm, so the film does declare it's hand in the sense that the stories do all carry a sexual element. For example one couple, unbeknownst to the bloke, deal with the woman's case of dacryphilia - being aroused by her partner's crying. The lengths she goes to to facilitate this are quite extraordinary! This couple is played by Kate Box and Patrick Brammall who you may recognise as Cleaver Greene's assistant from Rake and loveable Leo from Offspring respectively. The whole thing is full of familiar faces from Australian TV and film productions though, such as Lawson himself, Lisa McCune, Kim Gyngell, Bojana Novakovic and Damon Herriman who is a favourite of mine since his fantastic performance in the TV series Laid.
One of the stories featured towards the end of the film, almost completely isolated from the others, is positively delightful. Monica works for a video call translation service and Sam calls, wanting her to translate a a call from him to a phone sex line. All you need to know is that it's funny, romantic and the two actors knock it out of the ball park.
Regular readers might know that I don't dig it when films are too long so I'm also very happy to report that this is a very disciplined 97 minutes. Didn't think to look at my watch once!
Definitely recommend this. Go and see it!
Trailer here.