I Am a Sex Addict
September 20th, 2006
Didn’t have the patience. Caveh Zahedi does an admirably honest and mildly entertaining job dramatizing his life, but perhaps it’s a little too honest and not quite entertaining enough. Do I really want to watch some guy reenact his rape fantasies with a porn star, or have him tell me about his masturbation habits as if there was nothing more fascinating in the world? Do you?
So I turned it off. Unprofessional, I suppose, but there’s a war on and a film festival and I really can’t be bothered. But here’s what’s curious: if this wasn’t advertised as a true story, I’m sure I would have yanked it much sooner–so there’s a lesson here about memoir vs. fiction.
I Am a Sex Addict, Caveh Zahedi, 2006. *
September 20th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Yeah, really.
I didn’t see this, but I was kinda curious to see if that French (or French-speaking, anyway. . . she’s probably from Canada) porn star could act. Could she?
September 21st, 2006 at 11:51 am
No. Or rather, the film didn’t really require any real acting.