Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life
 (2018)
Documentary, Queer Themes/Interest
In Collection
#1568
8*
Seen ItYes
(12/10/2019 Home)
5060265151195
IMDB   6.8
106 mins USA / English
BFI (UK only)  Region 2
Jonathan Agassi Self
Michael Lucas Self
Director/Choreographer
Tomer Heymann
Producer Barak Heymann
Tomer Heymann
Writer/Composer Tomer Heymann
Cinematography Tomer Heymann
Addie Reiss
Music Matan Daskal
Anna Lann
Alberto Shwartz

Jonathan Agassi is a superstar in the world of gay porn. He lives the wild life in Berlin and Tel Aviv, where he works in films and live shows and has a second job as an escort. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll – and all of it in large quantities. But the industry is tough, and behind the confident smile is an insecure boy with an absent father and a very close relationship to his broad-minded mother. The contrast to the superficial success grows and grows, but in the world of porn there is no room for crises. Here, you must deliver the goods, every single time – and every single day. Otherwise you are done. The identity crisis is smouldering, Agassi is floundering and drugs become tempting as an easy way out. But how long can he hold onto himself? Over the course of eight years, and with much mutual trust, the director Tomer Heymann has followed Agassi right up to the culmination of his life's biggest crisis.
Edition Details
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Purchase Date 11/20/2019
Location Personal Library
Owner Deitz
Store Amazon Marketplace - RAREWAVES-IMPORTS.
Purchase Price $18.57
Condition New
Quantity 2
Order Order# 112-9557277-1885842
Tags Erotica, porn
Links +8 Review:QueerGuru (Roger Walker Dack Jan 24 2019)
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References
Lists † Top Ten Picks at London’s BFI FLARE Film Festival (2019)
Festivals & Awards BFI FLARE Film Festival 39 (2019)
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Notes
The documentary was filmed over some seven years in Agassi's life. It begins as Agassi is starting his gay porn career, his rise to stardom (at least in the porn world), then fall. There was no way that Heymann could have foreseen a tragedy drama (in a Elizabethian theater sense). Very skilfully done.