The Little Death
The secret lives of five suburban couples living in Sydney reveal both the fetishes and the repercussions that come with sharing them.
11 December 1978, Sydney, Australia
31 March 1970, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
15 April 1952, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
6 February 1980, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
22 July 1981, Queensland, Australia
April 27, 2017
More than parodying private peccadillos is needed to turn apparently twisted trysts into a smart sex comedy.
March 12, 2016
Feeling a bit more like sketch comedy than cinema, The Little Death is not without laughs, but the tone is all over the map.
June 29, 2015
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.
December 26, 2015
The film is an odd mixture of comedy and melodrama, with some tragedy thrown in. I would have liked it better had the film stuck to the comic elements and dumped the rest, but there is enough effective comedy in it for me to recommend it.
June 25, 2015
In the end, the film doesn't work.
July 02, 2015
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.
June 25, 2015
Darkly funny, occasionally poignant and teeming with the unexpected.
June 26, 2015
There is simultaneously too much and not enough going on in writer/director/co-star Josh Lawson's feature debut.
June 20, 2016
Josh Lawson's film does its best not to judge its characters, and his jokes occasionally probe some dark and daring territory.
July 09, 2015
Frequently funny and sometimes perhaps offensive in the darkness of its humor.
February 26, 2016
The Little Death pushes the boundaries but isn't offensive, and at times the comedy really works.
