{"id":3943,"date":"2026-07-20T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:37:10","slug":"my-friend-the-porn-star-review-german-documentary-about-desire-is-a-kooky-kinky-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3943","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Friend the Porn Star\u2019 Review: German Documentary About Desire Is a Kooky, Kinky Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThere are sex-positive films, and then there is <em>My Friend the Porn Star<\/em>, a movie that\u2019s about as pro-copulation as possible without being an actual work of pornography. German director-star Rosa Friedrich keeps things just on the exhibitable side of NC-17 in terms of explicitness for this goofy but quite winning documentary about how she tried to make one kind of film and ended up making another.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3941\">\u2018Scrubs\u2019 Promotes Ava Bunn to Series Regular for Season 2, Joel Kim Booster and X Mayo Depart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe original idea was to record her friend Timo as he attempts to fulfill his own exhibitionistic desire by getting Rosa to film him having sex with assorted women. But the two have different artistic visions. When he suddenly ghosts her in the middle of production and just goes AWOL, like many a frustrated woman before her she finishes the project to her own satisfaction. She partly achieves this by using very obvious deep-fake technology to graft an actor\u2019s head onto Timo\u2019s body for the footage she\u2019s already shot, so that we can see the real Timo from the neck down but with a pixelated box where the head should be of the actor she chose. (It\u2019s not clear whose voice we\u2019re ultimately hearing, the actor\u2019s or Timo\u2019s.)<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMy Friend the Porn Star\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<div>\n<span>The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/p>\n<p>\tTalk about the female gaze.<br \/>\n\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Karlovy Vary Film Festival <br \/><strong>With:<\/strong> Rosa Friedrich, Timo, Hanna Teglasy, Alex, Jane Kosto, Alice Eric BigClit, Janina Vivianne, Carmen Schrenk, Sofie Federspiel, Emma Striche, Sam Hailey, Adrineh Simonian, Aaron Karl<br \/><strong>Director\/screenwriter:<\/strong> Rosa Friedrich<br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1 hour 35 minutes\t\t\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tPlus, she gets a very diverse group of women \u2014 including a dominatrix, a non-binary food-porn maker, three trans women in a polycule, and several others \u2014 to make little shorts about what they find erotic. All in all this makes for a sweet, funny and, yes, horny little package that should be very bookable for future festivals after its Karlovy Vary debut.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlthough the film skips around Germanophone countries Germany and Austria while toggling between different time frames, Friedrich manages to get across how it all went wrong and then so very right for the end product we\u2019re watching. I may be wrong, but almost in passing near the beginning it\u2019s mentioned that Rosa and Timo were a heterosexual couple at one point, but now they are mainly just friends who are at ease with watching each other have sex with other people. Ish. At least Timo likes watching porn and sex in general while Rosa\u2019s not that interested in it herself. Timo, however, is excited by the idea of people watching him, and feels like this is one way to get in touch with his feminine side, although his intellectual justifications change constantly, just as he can\u2019t commit to what he wants to do with the film.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the end, Friedrich makes this equivocation and self-questioning \u2014 not just Timo\u2019s but that of other people too \u2014 a theme about how much we choose to reveal or conceal ourselves. In the end, she\u2019s probably succeeded in making a more interesting film than what Timo seems to want to have made, the latter sounding for all intents and purposes like an exercise in narcissistic self-indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3939\">Here\u2019s Just How Top-Heavy Netflix Is Right Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt any rate, before Timo ankled the project, he shot some scenes with several of the women he and Friedrich recruited at events like the Venus Expo in Berlin, a fair for \u201cerotic and lifestyle.\u201d Timo and Friedrich talk with Adrineh Simonian, a former opera singer who now produces porn and who\u2019s full of sensible advice. The duo travel to Hungary to meet Donna, a well-known porn actor, but she decides not to take part in the shoot, for reasons not explained on camera but seemingly to do with the production\u2019s lack of script and general professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRegularly inserted into the Timo sections are clips from the seven short films Friedrich ended up shooting with some of the people she met in the process, which explore what turns them on personally. Some of the footage is endearingly vanilla, some a bit more fruity \u2014 quite literally in the case of non-binary participant Alice Eric BigClit, who gets into a bathtub naked and has slices of fruit and whipped cream arranged artfully over their body. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe full spectrum of sexuality is discussed, if not quite shown, from BDSM to play with assorted gadgets to water sports and the like, but with much attention to why it all turns the subjects on, a focus on psychology more than anatomy. In the end, they show the package of shorts at an erotic film festival and Friedrich just holds on the faces of her cast as they watch the films, delighting in seeing themselves being seen. It\u2019s that joyousness that really makes this such a relatable, kooky-kinky delight, along with Friedrich and editor Melanie Schmidt\u2019s natural comic timing.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3937\">Chloe Fineman Finds Her First Post-\u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Gig<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring a cast expressing gender in a wide variety of ways, &#039;My Friend the Porn Star,&#039; from director-star Rosa Friedrich, premiered at Karlovy Vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,945],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-international","tag-karlovy-vary-international-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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