Kiki: l'amour en fête

Great underrated Spanish comedy. It gives the viewer and inside look at the journey of sexual exploration of different couples, and how their philias are viewed by society.

What in most cases society will consider bad taste or taboo to even talk about, we get to enjoy in a kinky and hilarious turn of events in this comedy.

A very pleasurable comedy about love, sex and fetishes, in the life of several couples and other characters from Madrid, whom each have some problems to face in this area.

The humor comes from the weirdness of some situations - without saying too much I can only say you shouldn't expect the regular love and sex stories - and of course the actors playing their roles incredibly good.

I've personally enjoyed seeing protagonists of all age ranges and social classes, and the diversity does not stop here. I've seen the movie in cinema and on my way out I heard only positive opinions, too bad they are not written here also.

If you're considering watching it and feel like you could use a good laugh it's definitely a very good option.

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.

I very rarely write reviews here in IMDb, but for this title I really felt compelled. Hope this is useful for the community.

Kiki is a remake of a comedy released only 2 years before called The Little Death, which was written and directed by Australian Josh Lawson.

I think that remakes are a delicate thing. A director must have a very powerful reason to remake a movie, and to do it "because I liked it and I wanted to do it myself" isn't a good enough reason for me. There are way too many good untold stories to be told to waste money and talent re-telling stories that were told yesterday, just for the sake of it.

The Little Death is an amazing movie. It's light, intelligent, subtle, funny, well written. It's the kind of movie that leaves a smile on your face for a long time. It also has in my opinion one of the funniest scenes on the history of the cinema - and by reading reviews and comments I noticed that this opinion is shared by many people.

Unfortunately Kiki couldn't manage to improve it at all. In fact what it did was to make it vulgar. Kiki is just full of fowl language. The smart dialogues and the innuendo present in the first movie became a stream of f-words, swearing, in-your-face jokes that simply didn't work for me. The movies aren't identical. Kiki does throw some 10-15% of new or original elements into the plot, but these are the weakest parts of the movie. They are not funny or smart, and sometimes they're plain gross.

When I consider what Kiki made with the original movie, I can only feel that The Little Death vs Kiki is like Woody Allen vs. Eddie Murphy. It's Charlie Chaplin vs Charlie Sheen. It's intelligent vs. in-your-face humour. That's what Kiki managed to put on top of Lawson's story. All the cleverness you'll find within Kiki (and I'm not saying there's none) came from Lawson's script. The original elements... they're just weak.

In Kiki the acting is inferior, the way the stories are weaved is much less interesting. The casting is way, way inferior. Lawson managed to create a magic chemistry with his casting that's nowhere to be found in Kiki. Not by a long shot.

Kiki is not a bad movie in itself. And it's very beautiful visually. But when a movie is a remake, comparing it to the original one is something that's unavoidable. And Kiki failed to improve The Little Death in any sense.

My suggestion: if you haven't seen any of them, watch The Little Death first! If you watch Kiki first, it'll ruin the novelty and the joy of watching the - much superior - original title.

This curiously sensual comedy by Paco León is a humorous take on some moderately hilarious views on modern-day sex and it gives more profanity and bad taste into the lives of people who could easily be our neighbours . Under Madrid's scorching summer sun , ordinary marriages and other kinds of couples enjoy real passion and the unquenchable desire to love and be loved , and explore their very surprising relations along various stories full of twisted sex and romances . In other words , the couples revolving around their complex relations , trying to find the road to happiness and determined to part with the social or self-imposed restrictions , even if this means they will have to deal with unheard , rather unusual, and above all , hard to pronounce philias . As Paco (Paco León) and Maria ( Ana Katz) are a couple looking for reactive passion of their sexual relations . Jose Luis (Luis Bermejo) tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma (Sayago) sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility , then the hubby making love her when she's sleeping , previously by taking sleep pills . While Natalia (Natalia de Molina) is a girl who can only find pleasure in her suffering , as she gets excited when is submitted to violent attacks or raping and then her husband Alejandro (Alex Garcia) prepares a ploy . Mª Candelaria (Candela Peña) and Antonio (Luis Calleja) are a marriage trying by all way to be parents , but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him, as she will stop at nothing to have a baby . A lonely call centre operator (Alexandra Jimenez) in permanent search for a man , is caught in the middle of a dirty and chaotic phone call , and eventually he falls by the deaf-mute who called . ¨Kiki el amor se hace¨ explores why do we want what we want? How far will we go to get it? What are the consequences of that fleeting moment of sexual ecstasy? After all, if there is wood, a spark and a will, the flame will start burning again. A comedy about sex . Sexual hangups and all that jazz . A festive erotic comedy from Paco León ! Some secrets lead to pleasure ! Sexy, daring, transgressive , brightly coloured and very funny ! An upbeat, vibrant crowd-pleaser! Everything you never knew you wanted to know about sex...

A not very original comedy in which we peer behind the closed doors of a seemingly normal suburban street , dealing with sex , love , relationships and taboo and that's why this Spanish film 'Kiki, el amor se hace' (2016) results to be an adaptation of 'The Little Death' 2014 by Josh Lawson . The title comes from an euphemism for orgasm , originally Kiki . As several couples will attempt to shed all inhibitions and delve deep into their well-hidden desires , sexual fantasies or rather fetishe s, with sexual experiments spin out of control and sharing the same irrepressible urge to investigate their own sexuality . These roles bear diverse type of paraphilia and usually have the same name as the actor playing the character . All of them love , fear , live and explore their obscure paraphilias . It is just a drama-comedy-romantic movie about sexual fantasies , fetishism and relationship which was regularly crafted , including a lot of obscene reference , jokes , intercouse , and nudity . All the segments and narratives are unique, fun , but silly and disconcerting .

It packs a lively and agreeable musical score by Al Acosta. As well as colorful and brilliant cinematography by Kiko De La Rica . The latter is considered to best one of the best Spanish cameraman and Alex de la Iglesias's regular . As he has photographed important films , such as : Los crimenes de Oxford , La Comunidad , La chispa de la vida , Witching and bitching , Francisco el padre Jorge , Blancanieves , Dias de futbol , Dias de cine . This quirky , unusual , dramatic and funny , at times , was middlingly directed by Paco León . Paco is a good actor who has played various films as main actor or secondary , such as : 3 Bodas de más , Embarazados , Toc Toc , La Tribu , Dieta mediteranea , Reinas , Sexy Killer. He has also directed a few movies , such as : Carmina o Amén , Carmina y revienta and episodes of TV series as Acaros and Arde Madrid . Rating : Mediocre 4.5/10 .