La Petite Morte is a 2003

2003 in film

The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

 documentary directed by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia

Emmanuelle Schick Garcia

Emmanuelle Schick Garcia is a Spanish-Canadian writer and film director, born in the south of France to a Spanish mother and a Canadian father. At the age of three her family moved to Vancouver, Canada where she grew up....

 about the pornography business in Paris, centering on the interviews of Raffaela Anderson

Raffaëla Anderson

Raffaëla Anderson was an adult film performer from 1995 to 2001, and is now a non-fiction writer and occasionally acts in mainstream productions.-Personal life:...

, John B. Root and others. It won three film festival awards for Best Documentary and one nomination for Best Documentary.

The title is a reference to "le petit mort", a French term for a male orgasm

Orgasm

Orgasm is the peak of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, characterized by an intense sensation of pleasure...

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