Poco più di un anno fa (Adored: Diary of a Porn Star) (2003)

21% of critics liked it
(14 reviews)
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(369 ratings)

Long a staple of Italian theater and vocal music, Marco Filiberti makes an auspicious debut as a feature-film writer/director in this melodrama set against the decadent backdrop of the porn industry. Filiberti plays the tanned, toned, and egotistical Riki, whose name is well-known to the country's… More Long a staple of Italian theater and vocal music, Marco Filiberti makes an auspicious debut as a feature-film writer/director in this melodrama set against the decadent backdrop of the porn industry. Filiberti plays the tanned, toned, and egotistical Riki, whose name is well-known to the country's gay adult-film connoisseurs. After the death of his aristocratic father, Riki is brought back into contact with his estranged brother Federico (Urbano Barberini), who views his brother's chosen profession with a combination of disdain and curiosity. As the two reconcile their differences, Riki has to come to terms with growing up and taking responsibility, which for him includes the desire to become a father by adopting an orphan. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.
Directed By: Marco Filiberti
Genres: Art House & International, Drama

In Theaters: Jul 20, 2003 Wide
On DVD: Nov 2, 2004

Critic Reviews

John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle
This clumsy, self-indulgent film veers from comedy to tragedy and is told in flashbacks, with treacly diary entries and unconvincing 'testimonies' from friends providing a window into the past.
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
Offers a few surprisingly sweet moments but never overcomes the narcissism it's ostensibly deconstructing.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
There is little for an American audience to adore about the film's star- writer-director Marco Filiberti, a breathtakingly self-idolatrous artist who makes Roberto Benigni look like an avatar of humility.
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
Not only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American 'gaysploitation' cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
A vanity project so preposterous it deserves to become an instant camp hit.
Dave Kehr, New York Times
Judging by Adored, the Italian singer, actor and filmmaker Marco Filiberti has the healthiest ego in Europe, if not the known universe.
S. James Wegg, JWR
Federico who moves in with Riki ... only to realize that his brother's butt has had more visitors than the Catholic Church on Easter Sunday.
Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International
Writer/director/actor Filiberti, like his film, is highly watchable. He happens to be extremely photogenic and comfortable at whatever he is performing, even if it's only a dance in a male strip club.
Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide
There are enough scenes here to make even the most jaded viewer squirm.
Gabriel Shanks, Mixed Reviews
An unfortunate exercise in ego run amok, coupled with inexperience and ineptitude.
Laura Kelly, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The story plays more like a young man's passing daydream of offbeat glory than a drama with realistic bite.
Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine
Drips with that element that has turned countless gay films into dour endurance tests: navel-gazing self-pity.
Robert Abele, L.A. Weekly
This feeble comedy-tragedy has Sirkian aspirations but never misses an opportunity to settle for being flesh-friendly gay-film-festival fodder.

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Cast

Marco Filiberti
as Riki Kandinsky
Urbano Barberini
as Federico Kandinsky
Alessandra Acciai

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