My Year Without Sex Page #2

Synopsis: Natalie and Ross struggle to stay in the middle class in a Melbourne suburb, with their likable son and daughter, 12 and 7. Their lives are upended one August day when Natalie faints during a routine medical checkup: it's an aneurysm followed by major surgery, convalescence, and a doctor's advice to avoid heavy lifting, straining on the toilet, stifled sneezes, and orgasms. Over the next year, we watch the family in vignettes, one each month: domestic frustrations, a tempting colleague, Christmas, a pet fish, a holiday, a church choir and conversations about God, a chicken hawk, a birthday party, football games, and fears that another aneurysm is just a sneeze away.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Sarah Watt
Production: Strand Releasing
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
96 min
Website
28 Views


And took the pill, but it'd be stress.

It's an epidemic.

I wasn't stressed. Was I?

I did yoga. Didn't I?

Oh, yoga's hopeless,

you might as well just lie on your bed.

You should do community singing.

You get your stress relief,

your oxygen in your blood,

endorphins, pleasure, happiness.

Singing with lots of people

stimulates a small organ in your ear.

It's like an orgasm.

- Ross? You okay?

- Yeah.

It's just...

sometimes people

forget about the person

who's been doing all of the caring

and all the worrying.

Hey, yes!

It's good to have you back, buddy.

It's been tough

being the most gorgeous guy here.

It's been tough because they didn't

replace you and banned overtime.

How does that work?

Dead air or work for love.

u50% of people with aneurysms die

before they get to the hospital./u

uMaybe 15% of the survivors

never walk or talk again./u

You should buy yourself

a lottery ticket.

But it won't happen again?

Consider it a yellow card.

Soccer.

A warning, but you keep playing.

Anecdotally, most aneurysms rupture

during heavy lifting, suppressing sneezes,

straining on the toilet and sex.

Three out of four should be avoidable.

They're just so beautiful.

I love you, Ross.

I love you, too.

And I love you, Ruby,

my gorgeous girl.

I love you too, Mama.

And I love you, Louis,

my beautiful boy.

Mum, what's 37 plus 16 plus 16?

um...

Sixty-nine.

Hey Mum, can I take you

to school for Show and Tell?

Maybe not.

It's only me who can't have an orgasm.

We could still have sex.

- Isn't it too soon?

- I don't mean this minute.

I mean when I'm better.

You could be really boring

and not get me excited.

You could go through

Analogue versus Digital again.

Very funny.

I can't believe I almost died.

I'm glad you didn't.

- Did the kids think I was going to die?

- No.

No, I told them you'd be fine.

What if I wasn't?

You should have been honest.

But you are fine.

I can't imagine not being here.

What kind of a next wife would you get?

No, I'm just thinking.

Would she be like a new me?

Or totally new.

Tidy.

Dear Ruby,

Happy Birthday!

u15!/u

I hope you're having a wonderful life.

Yes, you are too young to have sex,

and don't drive with P-platers.

Don't do drugs.

Definitely...

NOT Chroming,

Petrol-sniffing, Crystal Meth...

Christ, this sounds like a shopping list.

You're probably

a lovely, happy, healthy girl.

Eat with your mouth closed.

Sit up straight,

and occasionally try and think

about how the other person feels.

I love you.

I really,

really, really, love you.

Okay, big deep breath.

And...

Good... Jaws.

Good.

Okay, chewing.

Really big.

Last, through your lips.

All right, count in on two.

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Sarah Watt

Sarah Ann Watt (30 August 1958 – 4 November 2011) was an Australian film director, writer and animator. Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) at the Swinburne Film and Television School (now Victorian College of the Arts), Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work. In 1995, she directed a short film, Small Treasures, which won Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. In 2000, she made a program for the SBS series Swim Between the Flags called "Local Dive". It was made concurrently with another project that she was directing called "The Way of the Birds" based on the 1996 book of the same name by author Meme McDonald. She received the Australian Film Institute's award for Best Director for her 2005 film Look Both Ways.Watt returned to the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television to teach animation and was to assist in the development of many animators including Academy Award winner Adam Eliot in 1996. Watt was instrumental in the development of scripts for all of her students, but left the School to further develop her own projects, returning on occasion as a script and final production assessor. Watt was also a published author, she wrote and illustrated the picture book Clem Always Could and co-authored Worse Things Happen at Sea with William McInnes.During the post-production of Look Both Ways, Watt was diagnosed with cancer. Her second film My Year Without Sex was released in 2009. She died on 4 November 2011 after suffering for six years with breast and bone cancer, aged 53.Sarah Watt was married to actor William McInnes. They have two children, Clem (b. 1993) and Stella (b. 1998). more…

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