The life of adult film star Rocco Siffredi is the subject of a forthcoming Netflix series called Supersex.
The show, which has started shooting in Italy, will be a seven-episode drama inspired by the real life of Siffredi, who has over 1,500 porn films to his name.
Siffredi took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino.
He is famously known for appearing in the Buttman series of adult movies.
In June 2004, Siffredi declared that he would retire from porn films for the sake of his children, and instead focus on direction and production.
“My children are growing up,” he said at the time, adding: “I can no longer just say ‘Dad is going to work to make money for the family.’ They want to know more.”
During his career, Siffredi also shot two arthouse pics, Catherine Breillat’s Romance and Anatomy of Hell.
The show, which has started shooting in Italy, will be a seven-episode drama inspired by the real life of Siffredi, who has over 1,500 porn films to his name.
Siffredi took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino.
He is famously known for appearing in the Buttman series of adult movies.
In June 2004, Siffredi declared that he would retire from porn films for the sake of his children, and instead focus on direction and production.
“My children are growing up,” he said at the time, adding: “I can no longer just say ‘Dad is going to work to make money for the family.’ They want to know more.”
During his career, Siffredi also shot two arthouse pics, Catherine Breillat’s Romance and Anatomy of Hell.
- 9/28/2022
- by Peony Hirwani
- The Independent - TV
Catherine Breillat doesn’t make porn. Anyone familiar with the 73-year-old French auteur knows her frank portraits of female sexuality are complex, often transcendent explorations of desire through a metaphysical lens. That impulse extends back to Brelliat’s first film in 1976, “A Real Young Girl,” in which she adapted her own controversial novel about a 14-year-old’s sexual awakening. It has stayed with her through the decades in everything from “Fat Girl” to “Sex Is Comedy,” which fictionalizes the discomfort of shooting a sex scene.
Many of those movies are included in a new 11-film Breillat retrospective at New York’s IFC Center, but none epitomize Breillat’s daring aesthetic more than 1999’s “Romance,” the absorbing story of a young woman named Marie who finds catharsis from her sexless relationship with her boyfriend in a series of ambitious trysts. One of these leads to her rape; another inspires her revenge.
Many of those movies are included in a new 11-film Breillat retrospective at New York’s IFC Center, but none epitomize Breillat’s daring aesthetic more than 1999’s “Romance,” the absorbing story of a young woman named Marie who finds catharsis from her sexless relationship with her boyfriend in a series of ambitious trysts. One of these leads to her rape; another inspires her revenge.
- 2/14/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
"He gave my life rhythm. I measured time by him." Strand Releasing has unveiled an official US trailer for an indie French drama titled Simple Passion, from filmmaker Danielle Arbid. Adapted from the novel by Annie Ernaux. In this sexually frank portrait of female lust & vulnerability, a mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common. This story "documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion." It was originally chosen as part of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival selection, but later premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film stars Laetitia Dosch and Sergei Polunin as the lovers, plus Lou-Teymour Thion and Caroline Ducey. This looks like a cautionary tale about lust more than a story about romance. This trailer is Nsfw. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Danielle Arbid's Simple Passion, direct from YouTube...
- 12/13/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Laetitia Dosch is sensational as a lecturer passionately embroiled with Sergei Polunin’s reptilian Russian diplomat
The French-Swiss actor Laetitia Dosch lavishes all her underappreciated star quality on this insouciantly explicit movie about amour fou and erotic obsession, adapted by the director Danielle Arbid from the 1991 novel by Annie Ernaux.
Dosch plays Hélène, a university lecturer in Paris, divorced with a young son, who has fallen passionately in love with an icily sexy, dead-eyed and tattooed young Russian diplomat called Alexandre, played by Ukrainian-born ballet star Sergei Polunin. When he is not driving too fast while buzzing from Scotch in his top-of-the-range Audi and giving Hélène top-of-the-range orgasms, Alexandre has a habit of not returning her pitifully submissive voicemails. He casually leaves her waiting in the midday hotel room where they’d agreed to meet in all her brand new La Perla lingerie, while he disappears back to Moscow to...
The French-Swiss actor Laetitia Dosch lavishes all her underappreciated star quality on this insouciantly explicit movie about amour fou and erotic obsession, adapted by the director Danielle Arbid from the 1991 novel by Annie Ernaux.
Dosch plays Hélène, a university lecturer in Paris, divorced with a young son, who has fallen passionately in love with an icily sexy, dead-eyed and tattooed young Russian diplomat called Alexandre, played by Ukrainian-born ballet star Sergei Polunin. When he is not driving too fast while buzzing from Scotch in his top-of-the-range Audi and giving Hélène top-of-the-range orgasms, Alexandre has a habit of not returning her pitifully submissive voicemails. He casually leaves her waiting in the midday hotel room where they’d agreed to meet in all her brand new La Perla lingerie, while he disappears back to Moscow to...
- 2/3/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Passion Simple
Lebanese born French filmmaker Danielle Arbid mounts a high profile adaptation for her fifth narrative feature, Passion Simple, based on the popular 1992 novel by Anne Ernaux. The French-Belgian co-production is produced by David Thion and Philippe Martin and co-produced by Belgium’s Jacques-Henri Bronckart and Gwen Libert. Laetitia Dosch, Sergei Polunin (the Ukrainian ballet dancer who has appeared in The White Crow and Red Sparrow) appear as the leads with a supporting cast of Caroline Ducey, Slimane Dazi, Teymour Lou Taylor and Gregoire Colin (the Claire Denis regular).…...
Lebanese born French filmmaker Danielle Arbid mounts a high profile adaptation for her fifth narrative feature, Passion Simple, based on the popular 1992 novel by Anne Ernaux. The French-Belgian co-production is produced by David Thion and Philippe Martin and co-produced by Belgium’s Jacques-Henri Bronckart and Gwen Libert. Laetitia Dosch, Sergei Polunin (the Ukrainian ballet dancer who has appeared in The White Crow and Red Sparrow) appear as the leads with a supporting cast of Caroline Ducey, Slimane Dazi, Teymour Lou Taylor and Gregoire Colin (the Claire Denis regular).…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
To mark the release of Romance on 15th July, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
A teacher, Marie (Caroline Ducey) is happy living with her boyfriend, but their relationship lacks intimacy and, desperate for physical affection, she sets off to find it elsewhere, in a series of ever-more extreme encounters with strangers…
The film, originally released in 1999, drew as many shocked gasps from critics as it did plaudits when it first opened. It also troubled censors in the UK and around the world as it blurred the lines between art and pornography with its searingly honest depiction of a woman embarking on an odyssey of increasingly explicit sexual experiences.
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A teacher, Marie (Caroline Ducey) is happy living with her boyfriend, but their relationship lacks intimacy and, desperate for physical affection, she sets off to find it elsewhere, in a series of ever-more extreme encounters with strangers…
The film, originally released in 1999, drew as many shocked gasps from critics as it did plaudits when it first opened. It also troubled censors in the UK and around the world as it blurred the lines between art and pornography with its searingly honest depiction of a woman embarking on an odyssey of increasingly explicit sexual experiences.
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- 7/12/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Mubi's retrospective, Catherine Breillat, Auteur of Porn?, is showing April 4 - June 3, 2017 in Germany.Sex Is ComedyThroughout her career, Catherine Breillat has provided viewers with a long-form meta-cinema experience. While metacinema is as old as the medium itself, since her debut feature A Real Young Girl in 1976, Breillat has developed a distinct form of it: one that collapses ‘autobiographical’ material, various artistic sensibilities, and the process of filmmaking itself.Like dozens of other English words—such as ‘aesthetic’ or ‘abject’—the word ‘meta’ has been largely misused or misapplied with regard to the film and literary criticism. Regarding the consumption of fiction, the appropriate use of the term 'metafiction,' 'metafilm,' et cetera, has its basis in the Greek meta, which does not translate directly into English but can be understood as a preposition similar to the English word ‘about’ (‘having to do with,’ or ‘on the subject of’). Metafiction is therefore,...
- 4/24/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Catherine Breillat's Romance (1999) is playing January 25 - February 24 and Anatomy of Hell (2004) is playing January 26 - February 25, 2017 in the United Kingdom in the series Catherine Breillat, Auteur of Porn?“Why do men who disgust us understand us better than the ones we love?”—Marie, Romance“Forget it. She’s a bitch. A slut like any other.”“Yes, but the queen of sluts.”—Man, Anatomy of HellNobody fucks like the French. Or is that the Italians? Ask Catherine Breillat, the French auteur who remarked, when probed in an interview promoting her 2004 feature Anatomy of Hell, regarding the decision to cast Rocco Siffredi, the Italian megastar of hardcore porn, in one of the film’s two leading roles: “No French actor could do it. Rocco performs with his entire body and mind, so he is a sort of perfection.” The Italian Stallion,...
- 1/27/2017
- MUBI
Director Jean-Marc Mineo’s Action-Packed Drama about a lethal killing machine with an Insatiable appetite for Revenge (Bangkok Revenge) that is debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital March 26th. The film stars Jon Foo (Tekken, Street Fighter Legacy), Caroline Ducey (Romance, The Soul Keeper) and Michael Cohen (Them, Little Jerusalem). Synopsis: A young boy left for dead by the assassins who killed his parents is taken under the wing of a martial-arts master and shaped into a lethal killing machine with an insatiable appetite for revenge. As a ten-year-old child, Manit (Jon Foo) saw his parents murdered in cold blood. When the killers were finished, they put a gun to his head, and pulled the trigger. Incredibly, Manit survived, though the bullet in his brain left him devoid of all emotion. Subsequently adopted by a kindly martial-arts master, Manit trained tirelessly for the next 20 years, always knowing that the day...
- 2/15/2013
- 24framespersecond.net
Film review: 'Romance'
France's reputation as the land of ooh-la-la takes a serious hit in Catherine Breillat's "Romance". While there is sex galore in the ironically titled film, the physical act itself is depicted with all the allure of a root canal operation.
If Trimark expects to see any coin from this slow-moving and pretentious art house film, it will have to hype the very thing the film so poorly stages -- the explicit sexual encounters. But word of mouth from disappointed adults may doom any hopes of a long theatrical run.
"Romance" caused a stir in France last spring with much of the media fuss centering on Breillat's decision to cast Italian porno star Rocco Siffredi in her film. Interest was further goosed by the film's poster, which showed a close-up of a woman masturbating with a red X splashed across the photograph.
But then the French tend to take this kind of self-absorbed, overintellectualized claptrap seriously. Americans on the other hand are more likely to shake their heads over a philosophical controversy inspired by scenes such as a middle-aged man struggling for several minutes to tie up a woman that has all the eroticism of a man under the hood of his car trying to start the engine.
Writer-director Breillat's insistence that her film is an exploration of female sexuality from a female point of view is, at best, misleading. It is rather an exploration of female sexuality from the point of view of a particular woman who, clearly, is angry at men and sees romantic love as, to quote the press notes, "merely a transitory stage in the battle between the sexes."
Her heroine, Marie, is played by Caroline Ducey, a young actress who spends most of her scenes with her hair in her face. She sails into the night in search of sexual misadventure after a cruel and egomaniacal boyfriend (Sagamore Stevenin) informs her that he is no longer aroused by her and refuses to make love to her.
Thus, Marie experiences a bar pick-up (porn king Siffredi), a school principal doing advanced studies in S&M (Francois Berleand) and an encounter that is more or less a rape (and by casting a North African as the rapist this incident contains a whiff of racism to boot).
These encounters are played out in unadorned and drab interiors with virtually no music and an excess of dialogue -- both Marie's inner monologues and verbose dialogue exchanges. Long takes and few camera angles gave Breillat's editor scant resources to enliven these scenes.
Throughout the film, Breillat portrays Marie as a victim. But what victim? She more than gets even with her zombie-like boyfriend by the movie's end. She willfully entices if not demands every humiliating sex act. And she winds up with what she desires most -- a baby.
"Romance" has little to do with female desire. Rather the film once again illustrates the veracity of that ancient wisdom that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
ROMANCE
Trimark Pictures
Rezo Films
Producer: Jean-Francois Lepetit
Writer-director: Catherine Breillat
Director of photography: Yorgos Arvanitis
Production designer: Frederique Belvaux
Music: D.J. Valentin
Costume designer: Ann Dunsford Varenne
Editor: Anges Guillemot
Color/stereo
Cast:
Marie: Caroline Ducey
Paul: Sagamore Stevenin
Robert: Francois Berleand
Paolo: Rocco Siffredi
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
If Trimark expects to see any coin from this slow-moving and pretentious art house film, it will have to hype the very thing the film so poorly stages -- the explicit sexual encounters. But word of mouth from disappointed adults may doom any hopes of a long theatrical run.
"Romance" caused a stir in France last spring with much of the media fuss centering on Breillat's decision to cast Italian porno star Rocco Siffredi in her film. Interest was further goosed by the film's poster, which showed a close-up of a woman masturbating with a red X splashed across the photograph.
But then the French tend to take this kind of self-absorbed, overintellectualized claptrap seriously. Americans on the other hand are more likely to shake their heads over a philosophical controversy inspired by scenes such as a middle-aged man struggling for several minutes to tie up a woman that has all the eroticism of a man under the hood of his car trying to start the engine.
Writer-director Breillat's insistence that her film is an exploration of female sexuality from a female point of view is, at best, misleading. It is rather an exploration of female sexuality from the point of view of a particular woman who, clearly, is angry at men and sees romantic love as, to quote the press notes, "merely a transitory stage in the battle between the sexes."
Her heroine, Marie, is played by Caroline Ducey, a young actress who spends most of her scenes with her hair in her face. She sails into the night in search of sexual misadventure after a cruel and egomaniacal boyfriend (Sagamore Stevenin) informs her that he is no longer aroused by her and refuses to make love to her.
Thus, Marie experiences a bar pick-up (porn king Siffredi), a school principal doing advanced studies in S&M (Francois Berleand) and an encounter that is more or less a rape (and by casting a North African as the rapist this incident contains a whiff of racism to boot).
These encounters are played out in unadorned and drab interiors with virtually no music and an excess of dialogue -- both Marie's inner monologues and verbose dialogue exchanges. Long takes and few camera angles gave Breillat's editor scant resources to enliven these scenes.
Throughout the film, Breillat portrays Marie as a victim. But what victim? She more than gets even with her zombie-like boyfriend by the movie's end. She willfully entices if not demands every humiliating sex act. And she winds up with what she desires most -- a baby.
"Romance" has little to do with female desire. Rather the film once again illustrates the veracity of that ancient wisdom that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
ROMANCE
Trimark Pictures
Rezo Films
Producer: Jean-Francois Lepetit
Writer-director: Catherine Breillat
Director of photography: Yorgos Arvanitis
Production designer: Frederique Belvaux
Music: D.J. Valentin
Costume designer: Ann Dunsford Varenne
Editor: Anges Guillemot
Color/stereo
Cast:
Marie: Caroline Ducey
Paul: Sagamore Stevenin
Robert: Francois Berleand
Paolo: Rocco Siffredi
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/17/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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