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The Little Death
Directed by
Josh Lawson
R
2015
1h 36m
Drama
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Comedy
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7.0
61%
64%
6.7
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The secret lives of five suburban couples living in Sydney reveal both the fetishes and the repercussions that come with sharing them.
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Cast of The Little Death
Josh Lawson
Paul / Director / Writer
Bojana Novaković
Maeve
Damon Herriman
Dan
Kate Mulvany
Evie
Kate Box
Rowena
Patrick Brammall
Richard
Alan Dukes
Phil
Lisa McCune
Maureen
Erin James
Monica
T.J. Power
Sam
Kim Gyngell
Steve
Lachy Hulme
Kim
Paul Gleeson
Counselor
Zoe Carides
Dr. Barnes
Tasneem Roc
Yael
Ben Lawson
Glenn
Matt Reeder
Business Man / Producer
Joshua Bury
Luke
Charlie Fraser
Daley
Glenn Hazeldine
Older Gent
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The Little Death Ratings & Reviews
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
Frequently funny and sometimes perhaps offensive in the darkness of its humor.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The Little Death is [Lawson's] feature film debut, and it's beautifully scripted, each of its five story lines working out the comic implications of a perverse urge.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
it goes down as easy as Junior Soprano on Bobbi Sanfillipo, which is both a blessing and a curse for Lawson's Hollywood-slick romantic comedy.
Newcity
Ray Pride
[B]racing bursts of unlikely honesty in overlapping vignettes about five couples, their sexual hopes, fetishes and downfalls, with a sequence of endings that come together in a ravishingly sustained comic climax.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The mood will be too mild and shock-free for fans of Todd Solondz or early Neil LaBute; yet the film is sufficiently cool and quizzical to make you wonder where Lawson will turn next.
Film Journal International
David Noh
The entire enterprise is more annoyingly quirky-perky than truly sexy or psychologically probing.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
There is simultaneously too much and not enough going on in writer/director/co-star Josh Lawson's feature debut.
New York Times
Daniel M. Gold
In the end, the film doesn't work.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
A game cast, including Kim Gyngell as a former sex offender with baking skills, goes a long way in selling Lawson's hard-working material.
NPR
Ella Taylor
A winning humanity seeps through the high jinks. Lawson comes not to judge, but to assess the unintended consequences of sexual free play.
AV Club
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.
Paste Magazine
Christine N. Ziemba
This is apparently a comedy, and yet only a few of the characters' exploits are even mildly humorous.
Observer
Rex Reed
Sad and often laugh-out-loud funny.
New York Post
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Megan Lehmann
It's quite a trick Lawson has pulled off, creating a film that's as genuinely sweet as it is borderline offensive, and funny throughout.
Village Voice
Abby Garnett
Lawson either needed to flesh out these characters or view their failings with stiffer cynicism.
Movie Mezzanine
Charles Bramesco
...this hypersexualized riff on Wild Tales is at its best when depicting the tenderness and sweet intentions of Maeve and Paul.
Slant Magazine
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.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
"La Ronde" this is not.
Variety
Justin Chang
Australian actor Josh Lawson writes, directs and appears in this middling ensemble comedy about the wacky sex lives of four suburban couples.
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