Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Life and Death of a Porno Gang

When he can’t find funding to make his debut movie, film school graduate Marko (Mihajlo Jovanovic) takes an offer to direct porno movies so he can at least get some on the job training, His need to make art, even if it is porno art, leads him to make an artsy X-rated film that the producers hate. When they threaten to break his legs if he doesn’t pay them back, Marko gathers up his creative team and hits the road with a traveling ‘porno cabaret’ that combines the erotic with the political. The show is too outrageous for the locals, though, and it isn’t long before Marko and the gang are broke and starving. It’s at this point where a mysterious stranger appears with an offer to pay them a lot of money if they will take their edgy performance art to a new and deadly level: He wants them to make porno/snuff films. Writer/director Mladen Djordjevic doesn’t pull any punches in putting the story on celluloid, and a lot of Porno Gang is tough to watch. But there’s real art in the exploitation. You just have to watch a lot of nasty stuff to find it.

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