My Year Without Sex | |
Caption: | Film poster |
Director: | Sarah Watt |
Producer: | Bridget Ikin |
Starring: | Sacha Horler Matt Day |
Distributor: | Hibiscus Films |
Runtime: | 92 minutes |
Country: | Australia |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $4 million |
Gross: | $1,125,871 |
My Year Without Sex is an Australian drama film written and directed by Sarah Watt, opening the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival[1] and given wider release in May 2009. 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[2] 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,[3] as well as "the most accomplished" local film of 2009 by The Age.[4]
As with Look Both Ways, My Year Without Sex deals with the impact that serious illness has on individuals and relationships. The two films are reportedly part of a "proposed trilogy".[5] This film was the last film by Sarah Watt, about two years before she died of bone and breast cancer.
My Year Without Sex grossed $1,125,871 at the box office in Australia.[6]