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My Year Without Sex (2009)

96 min · drama film

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Directors

Sarah Watt

Cast

Matt Day, Sacha Horler

The story

Set in Altona (suburban Melbourne), it is about a 30-something couple, Ross and Natalie, and their children Ruby and Louis, after Natalie suffers a ruptured brain aneurysm and is advised not to have sex for 12 months. Watt has said that after her first film Look Both Ways, she wanted to make a film "without a sex scene": My Year Without Sex received strongly favourable reviews, and was touted by The Sydney Morning Herald as "possibly the best" Australian film of 2009, as well as "the most accomplished" local film of 2009 by The Age. As with Look Both Ways, My Year Without Sex deals with the impact that serious illness has on individuals…

Genres

drama film

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