Erotic Stagnancy: Steigerwalt’s Depthless Approach of a Italian Porn Heyday
There’s a formidably compelling subject matter at the heart of Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s sophomore film Diva Futura, which recuperates the shifting social mores of Italian culture through the wild success of the titular pornography studio established by Riccardo Schicchi. Curating a handful of celebrity personas through his work, two of whom would go on to pursue political careers, this nostalgia tinged approach takes a look at a progressive swing in the country’s conservative rhetoric of the 1990s before the internet changed the game of the industry indefinitely. But this presentation is not the film which succeeds in capturing the movement or its participants.… Read the rest
