La Petite Morte

La Petite Morte is a 2003 Canadian documentary directed by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia about the pornography business in France, centering on the interviews of Raffaela Anderson, John B. Root and others. It won three film festival awards for Best Documentary and one nomination for Best Documentary.

La Petite Morte
Directed byEmmanuelle Schick Garcia
Produced byEmmanuelle Schick Garcia
Written byEmmanuelle Schick Garcia
Music byCaptain Ahab
Cinematography
  • Hugh Scott
  • James Yuan
Edited byRuben Korenfeld
Production
company
JPS Films
Distributed byVodeotv
Release date
  • June 20, 2003 (2003-06-20) (Slovakia)
Running time
41 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Budget$55,000

The title is a reference to "la petite mort", French for "the little death", an idiom and euphemism for orgasm.[1]

Interviewees

Interviewees include Raffaëla Anderson, Fred Coppula, Brigitte Lahaie, Clara Morgane, Francis Mischkind, Oceane, and John B. Root.

Reception

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Both Schick and Anderson have too much contempt for porn, its makers and its audience for their tedious film to have much significance."[2]

References
  1. Allison, Anthony (2003-07-24). "Film: Sublimely ridiculous". Las Vegas Mercury. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
  2. Thomas, Kevin (2003-09-18). "The truth sinks in". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-04-17.


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