Product Details

• Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jérémie Renier, Dominique Blanc, Catherine Mouchet, Thibault de Montalembert
• Directors: Bertrand Bonello
• Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KOCH LORBER FILMS
• DVD Release Date: May 10, 2005
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007WQHH6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #78,428 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Pornographer" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Jacques laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s & 80s but put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas born of the 60s counter-culture had elevated the entire genre. Older & paunchier he is now directing a porno again. Jacquess artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producers ideas. Studio: E1 Entertainment Release Date: 05/10/2005 Run time: 108 minutes Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A little long and boring which seems ironic considering, August 8, 2005

By	C. B Collins Jr. (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This film is certainly a mixed product. Some strenghts but more weaknesses.

A fifty year old pornograhic director comes out of retirement after many years of idleness supported by his architect wife. He tries to make a film but the younger directors and producers overpower his vision and produce a typical porno product. Jacques, the director, tries to make the film naturalistic with restrained dialogue, no fingernail polish, and restrained whimpers during sex rather than overacted screams of pleasure. He is quickly over-ruled and he quits the project.

This man has lost much and will lose more during the film. His first wife committed suicide, leaving him with a little boy. The boy discovers his father is a pornographer and leaves home. When his son returns, they have little to say. Eventually Jacques leaves his devoted wife and alienates his best friend and isolates in a single room writing and editing his random thoughts.

One redeeming aspect of the film however was a description by Jacques of his early career and work. He saw pornography as a political and social act in which he and his friends and girlfriends engaged. Thus pornography had a rebellious political and artistic overtone that became washed out through commercialization. This sentence helps explain why Jacques was considered to be a great film maker, even 30 years after he was in retirement. His films were alive because they were created with the political and social spirit of the times in which they were produced. They were works of art as well as pornography. Now Jacques does not have that same rebellious spirit. We are reminded of the nature of youthful, unrealistic, energetic, eutopian, rebellious, protest in the film when Jacques' son and his friends have the ultimate rebellion against society by becoming mute.

One thing to remember, this film actually contains a pornographic scene that is as explicit as any porno movie.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not That Bad, November 19, 2006

By	Joshua Miller "Josh" (Coeur d'Alene,ID) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I can't believe how many people on Amazon. com dislike this movie. Two Star Average Customer Review? Come on! I saw the preview for this movie on the DVD of Teorema. I wanted to see it for two reasons; the movie looked pretty, um, cool and the only movie I'd seen with Jean-Pierre Leaud
is The 400 Blows, a movie he did when he was 14. Now in his late-fifties/early-sixties Leaud is still a fine actor who hits all the right notes in his performance as an aging pornographer. Leaud plays Jacques, a pornographer that had a slew of hits in the seventies but has retired. He now has a wife and an adult son (Jeremie Renier, "L'Enfant") he rarely speaks too, but decides to return to making movies. Problem is, porn has changed since Jacques was making it and he's not able to make it the way he wants it too. As his world falls apart around him, Jacques begins to reexamine himself and, in the process, begins to lose his mind. The movie is actually a really good character study, although it sometimes takes itself to seriously. One part almost made me laugh, when Jacques is giving an interview to a journalist and is talking about a scene in which (I'm paraphrasing) "The scene where she came, brought tears to my eyes." The movie has probably got more attention for it's graphic sex scene than anything else. This scene (which occurs about 30 minutes into the movie) is graphic...But it's not. You see more of the guy than you do of the girl, in fact you really don't see anything of the girl. It is, technically, graphic...But "The Brown Bunny" had more nudity. A lot of the reviewers on here say the movie is dull. I didn't find it dull; I actually found it pretty interesting and thought provoking. It's no masterpiece, it's not in a league with masterpieces, it's not even the best look at the world of pornography, but it's definitely an underrated film.

GRADE: B-

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Character Study., February 12, 2007

By	Robert Byrd (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This French Canadian film about a middle-aged man who is forced to re-enter his life as a pornographic filmmaker because of his need for money is quite thought provoking. The film he makes acts as a sort of emotional backdrop that propells him to think about his own personal misgivings and his estrangement from his son. For those of you looking for lots of gratuitous sex you will be disappointed. There are several quite graphic scenes, but they are far from titillating. This is not a sex film. Recommended for its quiet, reflective nature.