For such a country permeated by Catholicism, Italy can look back on a very long and socially firmly firmly firmly anchored porn culture. Italy not only comes up with icons like Rocco Siffredi – the most famous male sex film actor at all. It is also noteworthy that the stars of the genre are known nationwide, indeed real national sanctuaries. The latter applies in particular to Moana Pozzi, who died of liver cancer in 1994 at the age of 33.
Moana Pozzi is now also one of the characters, of which in “Diva Futura“It is told – and her moments are clearly the highlights in this otherwise mixed biopic of acilia Louise Steigerwalt, not least thanks to the nuanced acting art of the charismatic Denise Capezza, who has now made it into competition at the Venice Film Festival with her second feature film.
With his semicails porn films, Riccardo Schicci (Pietro Castellitto) quickly rises from hobby filmmaker to the media mogul.
At the center of the event is Riccardo Schicci (Pietro Castellitto), who, with his youth friend Illona Staller (Lidija Kordic) known under the artist name Cicciolina, founded the model agency “Diva Futura” in 1983 – and thus lies the foundation for the Italian porn industry: actors such as Staller, Pozzi or Eva Henger (TESA Litvan) he makes superstars, whose level of awareness quickly extends far beyond the genre. In 1987 Staller even moved into parliament for the Partito Radicale (radical party) and founded the short -lived partito dell'amore (party of love) in 1991. Pozzi also competed in Rome in 1993.
“Diva Futura” tells of Schicci and his actresses, to whom the long-time agency secretary and today's journalist Debora Attanasio (Barbara Ronchi) also joins. On her book “Do not say to your mother that I am a secretary. Memories of a normal girl at the court of the hardcore king”, the film is now also based.
A secondary figure is the strongest element
When Moana Pozzi is turned on by a greasy moderator stupid in a talk show, she makes a good face a bad game, the camera comes closer and closer to her face, in which loss is reflected. It becomes noticeable how enormously restricted the charismatic, intelligent, freedom -loving woman must have felt, who – in vain – tries to leave the porn business in the following. But she doesn't do that because she regrets that it has been part of it, but because the porn slowly slow down, the media and the audience don't quite get the line of doing it with a woman who is doing porn and writes books, as well as serious political ambitions.
Pozzi was considered an intellectual among the pornodives, it was cultivated in the appearance and witty in her statements. On Moana, men and women could all agree. Nevertheless, she was underestimated, never perceived as a whole, political offices were not trusted. For this, after her early death she became a saint, a kind of Maria Magdalena. Pretty much every Italian newspaper reported her death, even the Archbishop of Naples read a sermon in her honor, which particularly emphasized the deep faith of the actress. One would have liked to have more moments with this special, multi -layered woman, but it also becomes clear why Moana Pozzi has not been forgotten around 30 years after her home.
The porn actresses of “Diva Futura” become media stars known nationwide in Italy.
Unfortunately, the confusion does not make its other figures that jump back and forth in time and biography levels and therefore fragmentary film. Ricardo Schicci of all people even gets out extremely flat, always on the edge for caricature. Schicci is a chaotic, tender, always with a dachshund viewed dreamer, who already discovered his love for beautiful women as a child. Eccentric, but heart and always worried about his porn family: AIDS tests are of course a matter of course and for lunch everyone meets the steaming pasta. “Diva Futura” is based on memories of his former secretary and the memory not only works subjectively, but also selective-but the almost sacred view of the erotic entrepreneur is a bit unbelievable.
Pietro Castellitto struggles in his role, but is abandoned by the script. A short, unmasking moment can still be found: When Schicci's woman is concerned, but please do not do any crooked financial transactions, he only admires her beauty, but does not listen to her: the first step towards the downfall, which unfortunately takes a bit, since the film is increasingly incorporating in the second half towards the soap -like problem rolling. For example, one would have preferred to have learned a little more about Schiccis or more about the porn business at the time, after all, relatively complex 35mm productions were made, which are no longer conceivable today. But strangely, the porn bio is back and is content with the wistful statement that everything used to be better.
Conclusion: a crystal clear case of two and a half stars. Well and very lively turned, convincingly equipped, well to very well played and stirring in parts – but also told confused and also quite bland.