A porn star tries going legit and discovers Hollywood's just as fake—just with worse pay.
Hervé is a 37-year-old porno movie actor. Weary of the excesses of this fringe universe, he decides to hang up his Condoman costume and turn over a new leaf as a mainstream movie actor. He thus enters a world he knows nothing about. Rejected by his fellow actors, Hervé is just dying to learn the rules of the game. He then encounters LZA...
Acting
Gustave plays himself with uncomfortable, fascinating honesty.
Direction
Self-directed auto-fiction that blurs reality and cringe.
Writing
Script bites the industry that funded it. Meta as hell.
Director
Hervé P. Gustave
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hervé P. Gustave was a real adult film actor; this is semi-autobiographical, making every awkward audition scene potentially true.
Released when French cinema was having its 'porno chic' moment—this was the hangover, not the party.
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