Lauded Jonathan Agassi Doc Receives US Release

Lauded Jonathan Agassi Doc Receives US Release

LOS ANGLES — The lauded 2018 documentary "Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life" by Tomer Heymann will be released in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles next month.

The film, which profiles gay adult film star Jonathan Agassi, made its North American debut three years ago at the Atlanta Film Festival and has played festivals in Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Switzerland and the U.K., where it received the Centerpiece Screening slot of the BFI Flare London LGBTQ Film Festival.

It will play the Village East by Angelika in New York, May 13-19; PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia on May 16; and the Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles, May 20-26.

"Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life" has been described as “both erotic and yet car crash cinema… We are taken on a ride and [what] a ride it is.”

Alex Godfrey for The Guardian described the film as "unnervingly intimate ... sensitive and compassionate," while Paul Salt for Screen Mayhem noted the film is “provocative, funny and very human."

Noted Randy Shulman for Metro Weekly, "The other central character in all this is Agassi’s mother, Anna … Their relationship is jarring at times, but the movie is as much about a parent’s unconditional love and acceptance as it is about the life of a porn star."

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