Long in life

The documentary of Tierry Demezier and Alban Terle “Rocco”, who made a lot of noise in Venice, is released into Russian limited rental. Vasily Koretsky - about the tragedy hidden by 25 cm of the flesh of Rocco Siffred.

The main advantage of the “scandalous” film Terle and Demezier is a camera. Strong, expressive, glamorous, giving a professional, “dear” look of comedy in the frame. It is the comedy that this ambitious attempt looks like in the labor biography of the Stakhanovs of the porn industry, the life of an adopted artist.

The traditional film native about the porn industry is built on the assertion of a revolutionary and liberation nature of porn, which survived the golden age in the 70s, the era of political and sexual revolutions and a 35-mm film, and turned into a monstrous conveyor into the HD era. But in the history of Rocco there is nothing heroic, only luck and sober calculation-in the first scenes, the hero reports that he came to professional sex because why his namesake from the Visconti film is in boxing: because of money. Little Rocko really wanted to help mom. Moreover, the mother, as it were, blessed her son on a sex career: when Rocco was 10 years old, she found him behind masturbation, but did not get angry, but only smiled affectionately through the window. Now Rocco has grown up and every day asks the portrait of a deceased mother forgiveness for sins.

The theme of sin, quite natural, given the Catholic background of the actor (you can also without the prefix “Porn”: in addition to porn, Siffrede starred in “ordinary” cinema - of course, in characteristic roles), generally rises in the picture. In his “last film” (like Alla Pugacheva, Rocco constantly strives to resign, but the curse of hypersexuality is stronger than human will) Siffrede even plans to crucifix; The cross, however, with difficulty passes through the door of the Kink studio pavilion. “I slept with prostitutes, transsexuals, old women. Do you know what it feels like to have sex with a 70-year-old woman? " -With Faustian fire in the eyes, the 52-year-old actor asks the camera. The camera calmly looks around the situation: a solid house, a happy wife, simulators, two healthy and cheerful fools. That's all the flowers of evil. Family in the Dad Business Course - all the more so since the wife of Rocco, Rosa Karaccholo, the past sherself is a porn actress. The business of Rocco is generally family - the operator in his films is the cousin Gabriel Galeta. Those who quit the bank for porn for porn, Gabriel could not become an actor and now holds the camera - not always, however, evenly. Once at the time of the responsible filming (“This is the most beautiful scene in your entire career!” - Wiping a tear, says Gabriel) He even forgets to remove the visor from the lens, and Rocco and two girls have 15 minutes to waste for 15 minutes. The scene needs to be reached, but the actresses did not take a spare knitwear with them, and this one was torn to the shreds of Rocco. Rebuke.

The day of filming the last film is approaching, and Guest Star Kelly Stafford arrives from England. Gabriel offers scenario decisions: to attach or not to attach the Rocko angel wings? Or maybe dress him as a priest? Sweep on the cross?

Like the author’s team of “The Last Rocco Film”, the authors of the documentary byopic of Siffred are trying to give monumental significance to their hero with all the means available to them. Each smallest movement by the simple thoughts of Rocco is given by them for revelation, for the Manichaean conflict between heaven and the abyss. Large fragmentary plans of sweaty bodies turn the participants in the orgy into a kind of sculptural group, but a “home”, but not too shaking manual shooting of backstage episodes gives them additional home intimacy. However, despite all these tricks, from the picturesque frame it is not possible to expel the feeling of banality, the ordinaryness of all participants in this pathos-responent performance. Yes, Rocco Siffredi is not Chichcholin, he is far from any transgression, and even his suits to the territory of Arthaus (Rocco had sex in two films by Catherine Brayy) did not imply expand, so to speak, an acting range. Rocco advertises SNECs on Italian television, performs at the San Remo festival-not the most suitable classes for demonic Liberten, as he tries to show himself in confession on the camera. Emancipation of porn, the assertion of his equivalentness with other types of show business played an angry joke not only with Rocco-we recall the recent conflict between standing and her ex-boyfriend James Din: Standing accused Dina of having sex between duplications, but if sex on the camera is the same work as all the rest, should not be the same dispute to be the same. Transferred from the sphere of exclusive, sexual crime to the general area of ​​labor conflicts? It is also Rocco, who stands in tourist canvas shorts and chubby sneakers in front of a naked model and asks her questions such as “what has prevented you from understanding yourself for so long?”, It looks more like not the sin of the sin of Autkasta, but the character of the films of Ulrich Vali, a self -propelled burgher divided with the world of his home wisdom. “My penis has always been my destruction. But this does not mean that I am a complete insignificance, ”Rocco says in a voice full of tragedy from behind the frame; Another Rocco at that time silently looks at his sad reflection in the bathroom mirror.

Mirrors generally play an important, albeit poorly articulated, role in this film. Mirrors show old age, death, from which the excess of the excess and Rocco, and his unfortunate brother, and even Kelly Stafford, are fleeing to the world of porn with her bucolic ranch with horses, are also stress: conversation about sex and perversity between Rocco, Gabriela and Kelly ends with irrational disgusting quarrel. With careful viewing, the film Demezer and Terle is generally not about porn and sex, but about the fear of the finish line. In a film, abundantly demonstrating duplicate, castings and backstage porn, Rocco looks surprisingly anti -second. An excess that he speaks of as his curse is an excess of waste. Rocco and his girls are laid out on the site , but a prerequisite for pleasure is not a discharge at all, but, on the contrary, the escalation of stress. Yes, the curse of Rocco is not Eros, as he thinks, but Tanatos, self -display to complete, deadly emptiness - void, which still looks just like banality.