The life story of Rocco Siffredi, porn star. From growing up in gangster-infested Ortona, to family tragedy, to getting into the adult movie industry, to fame, to further tragedy and beyond.
I wasn't really sure what to expect from this series. A porn star is an unlikely subject for a biographical drama series. No matter how famous they are they're hardly the person you want to depict in a biopic. This made me intrigued as I thought maybe there was something positive that could be taken away from the series.
Then again, it could just be an exercise in sordidness and gratuitous sex scenes. So I went in with low expectations and an open mind.
Turns out it's neither profound nor overly debauched, so will appeal to nobody.
Rather than examine why someone would want to be porn star and the moral and life choices involved it's a pretty tame, conventional biopic on a fairly dull, unworthy-of-a-biopic subject. The writers try to add in some human drama by throwing in family tragedies and personal issues but it's all superficial melodrama.
Worse still, it's a 7-episode mini-series so this goes on for about six hours. A 90-minute film might have been reasonably interesting as the mountains of superficial filler would have been cut out but as a mini-series it's quite tedious.
Avoid.
I wasn't really sure what to expect from this series. A porn star is an unlikely subject for a biographical drama series. No matter how famous they are they're hardly the person you want to depict in a biopic. This made me intrigued as I thought maybe there was something positive that could be taken away from the series.
Then again, it could just be an exercise in sordidness and gratuitous sex scenes. So I went in with low expectations and an open mind.
Turns out it's neither profound nor overly debauched, so will appeal to nobody.
Rather than examine why someone would want to be porn star and the moral and life choices involved it's a pretty tame, conventional biopic on a fairly dull, unworthy-of-a-biopic subject. The writers try to add in some human drama by throwing in family tragedies and personal issues but it's all superficial melodrama.
Worse still, it's a 7-episode mini-series so this goes on for about six hours. A 90-minute film might have been reasonably interesting as the mountains of superficial filler would have been cut out but as a mini-series it's quite tedious.
Avoid.