Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.
A documentary exploring Italian pornography as political activism in the 1970s-90s is a genuinely interesting historical niche, giving it above-average novelty and a reasonably engaging narrative thread. However, the execution is uneven — archival footage is used competently but not artfully, the talking-head structure is fairly conventional for a documentary of this type, and the ending lacks a strong sense of resolution or reflection. Acting is not applicable in the traditional sense but interview subjects vary in charisma and depth. Overall a modestly interesting but flawed historical documentary.