Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 14, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Courtney Patterson (l.) and Zoe Cooper star in The Little Death.
The sexually charged 2010 independent drama-thriller The Little Death takes on the rather unique subject of early 20th Century brothels and that era’s psychology and philosophy on the “immorality” of prostitution.
The Little Death tells the story of a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) who ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner (Daniel May) and liberate a young woman (Christie Vozniak) whom she believes is being held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel’s owner attempts mesmerize and seduce the lovely would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) becomes a pawn in the increasingly risque game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is unfolding.
Based on the 1905 play Death and Devil by German playwright Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening), which is integrated with Anton Chekhov’s 1888 short story A Nervous Breakdown,...
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Courtney Patterson (l.) and Zoe Cooper star in The Little Death.
The sexually charged 2010 independent drama-thriller The Little Death takes on the rather unique subject of early 20th Century brothels and that era’s psychology and philosophy on the “immorality” of prostitution.
The Little Death tells the story of a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) who ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner (Daniel May) and liberate a young woman (Christie Vozniak) whom she believes is being held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel’s owner attempts mesmerize and seduce the lovely would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) becomes a pawn in the increasingly risque game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is unfolding.
Based on the 1905 play Death and Devil by German playwright Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening), which is integrated with Anton Chekhov’s 1888 short story A Nervous Breakdown,...
- 2/22/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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