HBO Hungary looks at the popularity of Pierre Woodman, a French porn director known for his amateur "casting" shoots and contract work with Private and Hustler. Woodman prowls the malls and cafés of Eastern Europe seeking attractive, persuadable 19-year-olds to film in his hotel room.
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Let's be realistic.
Best movie ever!
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
He comes across as a corrupter of young women. Though it's hard to understand him, and the documentary is subtle, it seems he gets a young woman's guard down during the audition, and eventually gives then head, and then seduces them to have sex with him while the interpreter leave the hotel room. This guy is sick.This auditioning is going on behind the former iron curtain where he can pay any porn actor way less. It is sad that these girls are letting themselves be sold out like this, what, in the end, is at the heart of patriarchy, an misogyny, easy mark, push over sex objects. Need we wonder at all the ass and breast grabbing, and rapes, coming to light these days? The very nature of the questions he hurls at them at the start of the interview, crosses boundaries of decency, and if they accept that, they will accept more. Like looking at porno photos with him. He goes after the innocent ones. So glad I got to see this underbelly scum work, to see how a sleaze bag Lothario operates these days,especially as I am from Budapest and understood everything said in Hungarian. Sajnalak, csajok.
This movie provides a portrait of one of the most dedicated pornographers. Based of course on interviews with Woodman himself in his idiosyncratic English, we get an idea of his challenging childhood, his varied life experiences, and of course his career and methods and theories of porn. This is more of an extended interview than a documentary, because while Woodman's relatives, employees, girlfriends, and some prospective performers give their opinions, there is really no other side of the story presented than Woodman's. Not that criticism needs to be injected just for the sake of controversy, but it would be interesting to hear from past performers to what extent Woodman's casting series lives up to the promises of fame and money. That said, it's not a fawning movie either, and Woodman mostly comes across like a typical entrepreneur
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