Autopsy of an Erotic Film

200051 min 57 secFilm: Documentary

She got caught up one day in the American dream: the young director wrote a screenplay for a B movie and went to Hollywood to shoot it. But big butts didn't produce big bucks, and the flick flopped. Poetic justice, perhaps? Wasn't she abandoning her deeply held beliefs as an artist and a feminist? Some six years later she returns to the "scene of the crime" to try and understand what went wrong... and in a wry documentary dissects her Hollywood misadventure, reasserting her true values as she analyses her movie in terms of the imperatives of erotic films. Never flagging nor flinching, the documentary is a clear-eyed look at the bad rap women get for assocciating themselves with the erotic film industry. In French with English subtitles.

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  • Film and Video Arts > ActingFilm and Video MakingWomen
  • Women > Image of WomenMass MediaWomen's Perspectives
  • Sexuality and Reproduction > Pornography