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‘Diva Futura’ Review: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s Scattergun Biopic Of Riccardo Schicchi Puts The Fun Back In Porn, Sort Of — Venice Film Festival

'Diva Futura' review: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt's biopic of Italian impresario Riccardo Schicchi returns to they days when porn was fun — Venice

Then there is the cuddly, family kind, as fluffy and innocently randy as a burrow full of bunnies, that flourished on video before the horrible internet spoilt everything and made porn rapey. By night, his father would lend him his binoculars to spy on women through their windows, filling in any gaps in his anatomical understanding with whatever under-the-counter girly magazines had managed to wiggle through Italy’s draconian censorship. The confusion is heightened by those seconds-long views of the Diva Futura world — blonde bombshells on velvet couches, flashing lights in television studios, the frolicking rabbits in Riccardo’s office — all shot in lavishly saturated color and hurried along by a bebop jazz score.

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