''My Year Without Sex'' is an Australian drama film written and directed by

Sarah Watt Sarah Ann Watt (30 August 19584 November 2011) was an Australian film director, writer and animator. Biography Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) at the Swinburne Film and Television School ( ...

, opening the

2009 Adelaide Film Festival The 4th Adelaide Film Festival took place in Adelaide, Australia, from 19 February to 1 March 2009. Katrina Sedgwick was again Festival Director.

and given wider release in May 2009. Set in Altona (suburban

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), it is about a 30-something couple, Ross and Natalie, and their children Ruby and Louis, after Natalie suffers a ruptured

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and is advised not to have sex for 12 months. Watt has said 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 ''

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'' as "possibly the best" Australian film of 2009, as well as "the most accomplished" local film of 2009 by ''

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''. As with ''Look Both Ways'', ''My Year Without Sex'' deals with the impact that serious

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has on individuals and relationships. The two films are reportedly part of a "proposed

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". This film was the last film by Sarah Watt, about two years before she died of

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and

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Box office

''My Year Without Sex'' grossed $1,125,871 at the box office in Australia.

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2009 Edinburgh Film Festival: ''My Year Without Sex''
{{DEFAULTSORT:My Year Without Sex 2009 films 2009 drama films Australian drama films Films set in Melbourne Films shot in Melbourne 2000s English-language films English-language drama films

Box office

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