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Pornographer [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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2.7 out of 5 stars 16 customer reviews
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  • Format: NTSC
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007WQHH6
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 243,937 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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2.0 out of 5 starsthe pornographer
By B OG on 29 Feb. 2012
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I was dissapointed with this film..There was very little action and I am not sure why it carried an 18 rating a 15 rating would have suffice
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4.0 out of 5 starsPornography? You decide...
By DM Webster on 23 Nov. 2002
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The pornographer is a typically French film. Beautiful locations and lots of deep discussions. the story centres on a porn film director who is rapidly being left behind by the business. He feels the need in later life to inject humanity into the films while those around him are interested in filming only the sex. One memorable scene is where they have just finished filming a sex scene and he turns to his co-director and suggests that the end of the film should contain the birth of the couple's child! All this is combined with the breakdown of his relationship with his wife, and the slow reconciliation with his son, again, typical French fare.
Much has been made of the 11 second cut of the money shot over the porn actress's face. However, although the film is very explicit in a few places I can't see how the money shot would have furthered the plot and its probably best left out. AS a discussion of pornography it is very interesting; its one of those films that purports to condemn aspects of the porn business but ends up actually compounding the ideas. This isn't a bad thing though- it just makes for more interesting discussions with your friends!
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3.0 out of 5 starsTiresome Tale Of A Man Loosing Touch With His Life
By DL Productions UK VINE VOICE on 15 Oct. 2008
Format: DVD
The Pornographer is a film that tires to be very controversial, but doesn't really help itself; this film could have been perfectly well told without the sex scenes which has had a 11 second cut due to the sexually explicit ending of the scene. To me, this just didn't need to be there. So the question begs; was this just trying to be a shocker to get more bums on seats at the cinema, or was there a real reasoning for it all?

Jacques Laurent (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a porn director who's made rather explicit movies right up to 1984, when he decided to end. He's now trying to come back to it all, but his attitude to have more humanity has been dismissed by his co-workers and he really can't get back in. This makes him rather disillusioned, and he leaves his wife, to build his own home.

The best thing to come out of it all is getting back in touch with Joseph, his son, who was disgusted by the work Jacques did. They really start to form a bond.

This film isn't the best really, it does get rather tedious and tiresome, with the sex scenes really the worst - they're wooden, especially the dialogue, worse than those clips from that show "Badly Dubbed Porn", which of course is a comedy skit of the industry. Does make you wonder if this was done for effect, to get more of an audience. I can imagine some adolescent rushing home trying desperately to hide this video to find there's very little of what he was looking for.

The storyline is good, but it really could have been better told, I did like the interview he had with the press at the end, but I just think it could have been a lot more interesting. You really need to be patient to watch this film.

The extras are not too good, you get a few interviews in text format, and the BBFC's statement. You also get a few filmographies - oh and the trailer.

Worth a rent, wouldn't buy this, it's not got that elastic "I'll watch it again" effect.
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2.0 out of 5 stars“Talking about oneself, it’s indecent.” [Jacques]
By Throda tzen TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 20 Mar. 2016
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In this 2001 French [English subtitled] ‘adult’ drama, Jacques Laurent was a well known pornographic film director in the 70s and 80s then went into retirement when his son found out what his job was and he separated from his wife. For two decades he has not seen his son and having remarried after his wifes suicide, has now come out of a two decade retirement to produce another pornographic movie to pay his bills and decides to contact his son.
This is a rambling plodding movie set against a backdrop of another, the making of a porno, which despite the title plays little part after the first quarter. The film is actually about the rekindled relationship between a disillusioned ex radical father and his young idealistic bored conformist son. It illustrates the changing attitudes and isolation that age can bring in a world that is rapidly changing. Full of symbolism, this is too arty for its own good, lots of long silences, seemingly pointless discussions, even extended scenes planning a house and so the tryst between the son and girlfriend is not actually shown, we only see sheep noisily grazing.
The single disc offers play movie with English subtitles, without subtitles, scene selection, extra features and original trailer. This carries an 18 rating for the simple fact that there are two gratuitous sex scenes, one extended, the other very short and neither does anything for the film and could have been deleted to give a 15 rating and gained a *. An intriguing film that ultimately seemed to go nowhere.
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1.0 out of 5 starsWatch the French original
By Fenderbender on 12 Mar. 2009
Format: DVD
The director's fury surrounding the censor's cut of the explicit scenes is justified as key dialogue is missing, without which much of the meaning is lost. In brief he asks the couple to make love with each other rather than perform sex to camera. He specifically forbids the facial money shot at the end. Nevertheless his assistant realises they are not delivering a marketable product and takes over: thus the film is ruined, his career is over and his masterpiece remains unrealised.
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3.0 out of 5 starsTorpid tale of a disappointed man
By L. Davidson VINE VOICE on 10 April 2006
Format: DVD
"The Pornographer" is a languid character portrait of an ageing ,glum French porn director ,played by Jean Pierre Leaud , who has become disenchanted with his chosen profession. This professional torpor parallels the malaise in his personal life ,with his second marriage ending in separation for no apparent reason other than his desire for solitude and a good , long sulk. There are some explicit sex scenes early on in the film ,used to convey Leaud's growing distaste for his job ,and his embarrassment at being a 50 year old porn director is reflected in his sheepish behaviour with his student son ,with whom he is now reconciled after their relationship broke down when the son discovered what Dad really did for a living. Leaud's character is not a particularly likeable one and the movie doesn't convey any profound message or provide any meaningful insight into the human condition , although it does affect to do so. The cinematography is the best part of "The Pornographer" and the scene with the sheep grazing on a hillside is for me the highlight of the film.
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