La Petite Morte is a 2003[1] Canadian documentary directed by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia about the pornography business in France, centering on the interviews of Raffaela Anderson,[2] John B. Root and others.
[citation needed] The title is a reference to "la petite mort", Gallic slang for "the little death", an idiom and euphemism for orgasm.
[1] Interviewees include Raffaëla Anderson, Fred Coppula,[3] Brigitte Lahaie, Clara Morgane, Francis Mischkind, Oceane, and John B. Root.
During the interview Anderson talks with Shick Garcia about many subjects revolving around pornography like rape, incest and suicide.
[3] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Both Schick and Anderson have too much contempt for porn, its makers and its audience for their tedious film to have much significance.