When a virginal girl follows her lover into a mysterious forest, a twist of fate wrenches them apart forever. The girl struggles to be ever closer to him in this fairytale about sex, death, and pie.
Direction
Davis crams more visual ideas into 9 minutes than most features.
Cinematography
The forest becomes a body—damp, hungry, alive.
Production
DIY production design that punches way above budget.
Director
Elizabeth Jaeleigh Davis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Madeleine Waters and Alex MacNicoll were relative unknowns at the time; this short helped MacNicoll land teen heartthrob roles in bigger productions.
The title references the French euphemism for orgasm ('la petite mort') while also nodding to the actual death drive in the narrative—classic feminist short film wordplay.
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