Kiki, Love to Love

Sometimes you see a creative or a different perspective to the same movie...that may be acceptable. However, this movie has bluntly copied, 1 to 1, the Australian movie "The Little Death" (2014). At least they should have been fair and use the same name. For honest disclosure - if you haven't watch the Australian version (that to my taste it's better than this one), this movie is quite enjoyable. It will only be disappointing if you watched the other version.

It took me quite a while to realise that this is a remake of The Little Death, an Australian film that I had seen just a year or so ago. That's how forgettable the original is. I avoid remakes like the plague, but this one caught me by surprise. I watched it until the end, fairly entertained, whereas the original quickly bored me.

Perhaps this is because The Little Death tried to be edgy and failed, when Kiki feels more natural, relaxed, and cute. Perhaps the Spanish acting is better, but I'm not going to rewatch the original to ascertain.

Anyway, it's still not good enough to recommend warmly, although it's possible that I would have rated it 1 point higher if it was not déjà vu. It didn't make me laugh, but it did make me smile plenty.

Excellent, a creative and fun way to talk about sex and fetishes, mostly from the female point of view, very interesting, comical, dramatic, exaggerated, but true, the construction of the characters very realistic, we feel an integral part, I fell in love, I fell I identified, cute...

After watching the original a while back, it faded from my memory fast, which will not happen with Kiki. The main difference is the direction & far superior performances.

The exiting, direction and photography is fresh and colorful, vicvdly showing a contemporary Spanish summer.

The actors are actually good, which is always refreshing in a comedy, and the scrupt is actually satisfying, with very good jokes spread throughout (the deaf girl story).

What is apparent is that some segments and stories are simply much better than the rest, and elevate the movie (think the one starring the director), while some drag and simply detract from the movie. However it's still a fun romp all around.

Liked: -specific scenes, such as the therapist scene (feels like straight out of a Woody Allen scene) and the sex club scene -some of the comedy -the actors

Disliked: - some of the stories and their pacing -some of the dialogue

Loved it. Wasn't expecting much, but I found a lot of fun and bizarre characters, with an interesting subject and a well paced movie, portraying different little stories about people with different sexual psychological disorders (paraphilia) happening at the same time in the city of Madrid. Great cinematography, great characters, very good and funny acting, great story. Highly enjoyed it!