Kiki, Love to Love

Four couples and a single woman seek sexual satisfaction in strange places in filmmaker Paco León's remake of the 2014 Australian comedy The Little Death. Natalia (Natalia de Molina) fantasizes about a convenience store robbery, so her boyfriend, Alex (Alex García), tries to recreate the experience, but things don't go according to plan. Paco (director León) and Ana (Ana Katz) share their mutual disappointments with a therapist. A visit to a sex club fails to reignite the spark, but then Ana finds herself attracted to lesbian barmaid Belén (Belén Cuesta), who Paco believes might offer the solution to their problems. Maria (Candela Peña) and Antonio (Luis Callejo) have an active sex life, but she hasn't been able to get pregnant, even though her gynecologist can't find anything wrong. She believes the inability to conceive is tied to a lack of orgasms, but the first time Maria sees Antonio cry, it turns her on, so she keeps him supplied with tear-inducing stimuli. In the most underdeveloped story, Sandra (Alexandra Jiménez), a sign-language interpreter, fears that she will never find a partner who is able to get past her quirks—such as an irresistible attraction to silk fabric. Finally, José Luis (Luis Bermejo), a plastic surgeon, talks more about intimate matters with his assistant, Maite (Maite Sandoval), than with his wheelchair-bound wife, Paloma (Mari Paz Sayago). His solution involves knockout drops and non-consensual sex, which León presents as more amusing than disturbing—casting a pall over the rest of this otherwise engaging film. A strong optional purchase. (K. Fennessy)