Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere

Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.

Director: Agnès Poirier

Cast: Anna Sigalevitch, Annie Sprinkle, Gerard Damiano Jr., Larry Revene, Whitney Strub, Nine Antico, Paulita Pappel, Didier Philippe-Gérard

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.