The little pleasure
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| Original title | The little pleasure |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 93 minutes |
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| Director | Julia Frick |
| script | Alice Frick, Julia Frick, with ideas from Sabine Kunz |
| production | Alice Frick, Julia Frick |
| music | Michael Ehninger |
| camera | Marco Zimprich |
| cut | Lenore Eklund, Sarah Bernhardt |
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The small pleasure (also: Shop of Little Pleasures ) is an Austrian fictional film by Julia Frick from 2017 with Petra Kleinert in the leading role. The comedy film won an award for best foreign film at the LA Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2017, and Waltraut Haas received an award for best supporting female role at the 2017 Sydney Indie Film Festival . In Austria, the film was shown in March 2018 at the FrauenFilmTage Vienna film festival. The cinema release took place in Austria on October 12, 2018.
action
Emma is a married woman and the mother of Lukas and Mirella. She has a house with a garden and has both feet on the ground. Everything seems fine until she cheats on her husband. The threat of divorce, which also endangers Emma's economic existence. She goes on a job hunt and meets Charlie, the operator of a sex shop, who is urgently looking for a manager. The product range that Emma finds there, however, does not meet her expectations, she cannot do much with the products and therefore begins to transform the shop into an erotic boutique for women and everyone who loves women.
Through her commitment, she soon wins new customers and acquaintances, and she also gains new insights into her ideas about sexuality. She concludes that traditional notions are out of date and begins to explore her own needs. Emma's conservative mother does not like this walk, she is also viewed critically by children. Emma can no longer be dictated to. She receives support from her new acquaintances in her business activities. And her ex is starting to be interested in her again.
production
The shooting took place in summer 2016 in Eisenstadt , Leopoldsdorf and Vienna . Among other things, the location was the Eisenstadt town hall . The film was produced by Viennatainment - VEG Julia Frick OG . Roland Winkler was responsible for the sound, Veronika Susanna Harb for the costume design, Fritz Müller for the production design and Uschi Braun for the makeup.
reception
Barbara Petsch described Das kleine Freude in the daily newspaper Die Presse as a charming, sensitive and funny film about the most important thing in the world, although the basic idea was not entirely new and would be reminiscent of Die Herbstzeitlosen (2006). The film is "despite its sensitive topic, the huge sales that sex toys find, tastefully designed and great cast".
Awards and nominations
- 2017: LA Femme International Film Festival - "Best Foreign Film"
- 2017: Sydney Indie Film Festival - "Best Female Support" (Waltraut Haas)
- 2018: Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney - Nomination for the NDR Film Award for Young Talent
Web links
- Shop of Little Pleasures in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d FrauenFilmTage Wien: Films . Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ↑ SKIP - the cinema magazine: The little pleasure . Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ↑ The little pleasure: Synopsis . Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ↑ a b c International Film Festival Emden-Norderney: The miracle exercise . Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Eisenstadt: shooting for a movie . Article dated August 3, 2016, accessed June 7, 2018.
- ↑ Start of shooting: Eisenstadt's Fuzo as a film location . Article dated July 14, 2016, accessed June 7, 2018.
- ↑ The little pleasure: team . Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ↑ diepresse.com: Cinema: The secret sex life of women . Article dated October 10, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018.