1978. DIRECTED AND WRITTEN
BY WES CRAVEN. COMMENTS BY ROMAN POLANSKI.
Pornographer Robert Furch
makes a movie inspired by "Lysistrata," he says. A documentary
crew films the casting call, Furch's 14-day shoot, a lighting technician's
becoming an actor, and the aftermath of the suicide (before filming
ends) of Claudia Fielers, the film's leading lady. Comments by Roman
Polanski, Carl Amery, and an unseen narrator connect the possibility
of snuff films to the process of a commercial enterprise such as this
and Fielers' suicide. Furch pleads innocent, cloaking his work in Protestant
virtues. His posturings and his direction are comical; the commentary
may be tongue in cheek. What about the appended snuff footage? Is this
documentary for real?
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