Director: Sarah Watt
Starring: Sacha Horler, Matt Day, Jonathan Segat, Portia Bradley
In Cinemas: 28 May 2009
My Year Without Sex In a time where much of the talk about Australian films calls them boring and mundane, My Year Without Sex tackles life and death issues head on in a genuinely funny way. Ross (Day) and Natalie (Horler) are a young couple with two kids living in suburban Melbourne.
Life has its highs and lows but they’re a happy clan until tragedy strikes – Natalie has emergency surgery for a brain aneurysm. The film covers many of the frustrations of marriage, the test of love, the tribulations of bringing up children, major illness and how recovering from a brain illness can play havoc with one’s sex hormones – but it’s underlined with a humour that communicates universally. There are several memorable scenes, such as the one where Natalie writes out of children’s birthday cards many years in advance, worried that she won’t make the future celebrations.
Directed and written by Sarah Watt (Look Both Ways), My Year Without Sex finds humour even when life is full of pain. Watt delivers a snappy, solid script that has its funny bits laced with tragedy, while Horler and Day deliver convincing performances. The kids are hilarious and well portrayed with Jonathan Segat as the timid Louis and Portia Bradley as the precocious Ruby. Delivered in month-by-month chapters, the film covers the course of one year. By the time you arrive at the end, the character development is evident and the journey experienced resonates in both the characters and in us.
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