The Pornographer

Jacques Laurent, a pornographer in vogue in the seventies and today in severe financial difficulties, decides to return to porn productions. His idea is to ally an act of love to a pornographic act. However, he can not rid himself of the thought of his son who, three years before, rebelled when he learned of his father?s profession. Father and son finally meet up once more at the moment when Jacques is in search of a way to redirect his life and Joseph, now 17, is trying to make sense out of his life. In the words of Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon actor of the nouvelle vague, in the role of protagonist Jacques Laurent, The Pornographer “bears with it the possibility of expressing suffering, that of a man confronted with an attempt to maintain his dignity, the refusal to be vulgar, even if making pornographic films”. “Pornography is when we are silent and show the sex organs, of no interest. To contradict this, I tried to find dignity, depth, and suffering in expressing very crude words.”

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA