Rocco Siffredi’s life is depicted in daring Italian “Supersex”
Updated 16.01 | Published 15.44
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TV REVIEW Netflix’s “Supersex”, about the Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi, contains so many sex scenes that you lose count.
But its biggest sin is that it is nonetheless boring.
Supersex
Netflix
Seven parts
Av Francesca Manieri, med bl to Alessandro Borghi, Saul Nanni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriano Giannini, Enrico Borello, Vincenzo Nemolato, Gaia Messerklinger, Jade Pedri, Linda Caridi.
BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA The cock will have its way.
The famous Frank Andersson– quote is close at hand when watching “Supersex”. A seven-part Italian drama based (loosely) on the legendary porn star Rocco Siffredis life, and has already been rewritten in advance as Netflix’s most indecent series ever. (I forgot to count the sex scenes, but it must be around 50.)
After an opening that takes place at a porn fair in Paris in 2004, where the “Italian stallion” announces his intention to retire from porn, flashbacks tell how Rocco Siffredi, or Rocco Tano as he was called when he grew up in a poor family in the coastal town of Ortona, becomes fixated on sex as a child, when he finds a porn magazine where the hero’s superpower is to fuck.
How, as a teenager in Paris, he realizes that he has a piece of dynamite up his sleeve.
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full screen Alessandro Borghi as Rocco, Gaia Messerklinger as Moana in “Supersex”. Photo: Lucia Iuorio/Netflix
And how, as an adult, he not only achieves success and fame with his explosive and seemingly untamable big-cock energy, but also becomes a slave to it, letting it rule all relationships and all aspects of life.
Rocco (who is played very well by Alessandro Borghi) is not a man with a penis as an appendage, but a penis with a man as an appendage.
But while basically everything is about sex in “Supersex”, and it’s really cuckooed through and through, it’s neither a particularly sexy series nor an enlightening deep dive into the porn industry and Siffredi’s role in it.
The originator Francesca Manieri, who is therefore a woman and also an outspoken feminist, seems to have been most interested in making a semi-artistic series that philosophizes about childhood trauma, dysfunctional relationships, destructive masculinity, addiction and, a bit off-kilter, the status difference between male and female sex workers.
And while she partially succeeds, you never understand why so much stage time is devoted to Rocco’s self-destructive half-brother Tommaso (Adriano Giannini) – whose impact on Rocco’s life had been clear even if not half the series had been about him.
However, the many sex scenes, which are after all the raison d’être of this series, are overall really nicely done; skilfully integrated into, and of importance to, the plot.
And “Supersex”‘s biggest sin is not being too dirty – but rather being a little too boring.
“Supersex” is available to stream on Netflix.
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