A COMPLETE HISTORY OF
MY SEXUAL FAILURES

Year: 2008
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Chris Waitt, Hilary Waitt, Alexandra Boyarskaya, Danielle McLeod, Olivia Trench
Director: Chris Waitt
Country: UK
UK: 93 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains one scene of explicit sado-masochistic activity
UK Release Date: 27 June 2008 (Limited Release)
UK DVD Release Date: 20 October 2008


Synopsis

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES follows independent filmmaker Chris Waitt as he interviews his ex-girlfriends in an attempt to find out why they dumped him. This revealing and humorous documentary sees the slacker filmmaker go on a sexual and emotional odyssey in a desperate quest to solve his innumerable problems.

When scraggly, endearingly hapless, independent filmmaker Chris Waitt gets dumped by his girlfriend - the last in a long line of disastrous affairs - he resolves to find out what exactly is wrong with him. Why have all his relationships ended in acrimony or indifference? What will it take for him to dodge everlasting loneliness?

Not even his mother can muster much sympathy as he interviews his ex-girlfriends in an attempt to find out why they discarded him. A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES is a revealing and humorous documentary that sees the slacker filmmaker go on a sexual and emotional odyssey in a desperate quest to solve his innumerable problems.

From the director

After being dumped by a number of girls in 2006, and determined to stop the cycle of disasters that was his love life, the director states:
"Ever since I was a teenager all of my relationships with girls have ended badly. In my life so far I've calculated that I've had 13 serious relationships*, 47 minor erotic encounters and 16,425 unfulfilled sexual impulses. These interactions with women have almost all ended in personal humiliation, recrimination, regret, bitterness, shame and failure. I've started to wonder if I'm doing something wrong.

I believe that if I can find out the reasons why I keep getting dumped I'll be able to improve myself and hopefully have a successful relationship in the future. So I'm going to talk to every woman I've ever been out with and ask them to tell me what's wrong with me.

If I can make a film about it, it will also give me a job for the next few months."

Since making the film, the director wrote:
"It's possible that I was over optimistic about how pleased my ex-girlfriends would be to see me. The whole process turned out to be extremely painful and humiliating, for pretty much everyone involved. Also, a number of other issues which I hadn't initially planned to explore in the film started to become unavoidable. I can't stress enough that one of those issues in particular is no longer an issue for me. I have fully recovered and am so much better. I really am. Anyway, I hope that my humiliation and misery will be a source of amusement and pleasure to those that watch the film."

DVD EXTRAS

Feature Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Colour PAL
Audio: Stereo, 5.1
English Language