DVD Release: The Little Death

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 20^th 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, The Little Death is written and directed by Bret Wood, whose previous credits include the well-regarded 2006 drama Psychopathia Sexualis.

Both The Little Death and Psychopathia Sexualis are available from Kino Lorber as a two-pack DVD.

Making its premiere on DVD, the film is presented in its unrated director’s cut.

Bonus materials include a behind-the-scenes featurette, a collection of deleted scenes and Wood’s 2008 short film The Other Half.

Here’s the trailer, a pretty provocative one:

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