The Little Death (2014) poster
2014 · drama · comedy · romance

The Little Death

Directed by Josh Lawson1h 36m2014
ElsewhereIMDb7.028kRT61%Metacritic46
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.

Our read · The Little Death (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want frank, funny vignettes about couples chasing awkward private fantasies.

ends warmit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditycringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou're with parents, kids, or anyone who blushes at explicit sex talk.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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