A good movie

Basically, it is once again one of these really obscure French movies that almost no one has seen here on listal. Well, believe it or not, I actually saw the damned thing in the movie theater when it was released. Sure, you can think that I’m some kind of closeted pervert (that might be true…) but I was really intrigued by the idea of a mainstream feature dealing with this usually taboo suject. On top of that, the main character was played by the always fascinating Jean-Pierre Léaud so I was definitely intrigued by the damned thing. Eventually, you might watch this movie for the explicit scenes but you would be disappointed (there were just a couple of them and those scenes were very short). I mean, I think he did make sense to shot those scenes considering the subject. Anyway, the main purpose of the whole thing was above all to show the paradox of a director who wants to remain artistically relevant within an industry (the porn business) which doesn’t care about Art at all and just wants to make the cheapest movies possible. So, that was an interesting idea but, to be honest, it never really became more than just interesting, I’m afraid, and the whole thing was still a little bit pretentious. Still, to conclude, even though it wasn’t a masterpiece, I thought it was pretty good and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10