Rocco Siffredi plays a film director who is suffering though a mid-life crisis. He begins to question his career, his love life, himself. And then one day he sits down at a mirror and begins conversing with his reflected image, and things get all strange as we are led via flashback through the many difficult twists and turns of his life.
While shooting documentary footage of a porn shoot, Siffredi encounters the film's own disaffected director, who hands the scene over to Siffredi when he realizes that his own vision isn't working. The next thing you know, Siffredi's creativity is restored and he finds himself questioning where his filmmaking loyalties lie -- in the "adult" world or the "real" world?
There are some genuinely surreal scenes and images here and the plot (as I pointed out above) echoes Fellini's classic Italian film 8 1/2, a film that is also about a director encountering great mental difficulties as he struggles to finish his latest work.
The story is involving and the acting is surprisingly nuanced. Both Rocco and Janine turn in some fine acting performances -- yes, I'm serious -- and the film's haunting final moment made my jaw drop: Siffredi, breaking the fourth wall and addressing the camera, tells us that "Sometimes, life is ... hard," before stepping out of the widescreen frame and into the "real" world, where he then simply walks away. It's a moment that cements Thomas as one of the more creative directors out there.
Starring Janine, Rocco Siffredi, Tawny Roberts, Veronica Carso, Dasha, Tera Bond, Cristina Bella, Black Diamond, Victoria Swinger, Silvia, Mya Diamond, Alberto Ray, Dominic Antonio Ross, Frank Gun, Lauro Giotlo, Julian, Manuel Ferrara, Leslie Taylor and Paul Thomas.
Extras: Director's Commentary, chapter search, DVD-ROM compatible, photo gallery, previews, no regional encoding.
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