Making a porno film is all very clinical and dull and being on set is just as tedious and boring as being on any other film set. That appears to be the first important lesson of The Pornographer (le Pornographe), a mid-life crisis sort of movie about a 50-ish filmmaker at the end of things, and his adolescent son, who is at the beginning of things. Call it a coming-of-age, going-of-age kind of movie.

Jean-Pierre Leaud plays a formerly popular porn filmmaker who has quit the business, but who, for mundane reasons such as finance, gets back in. Along the way, he is reunited with his adolescent son (Jeremie Renier), from whom he has been estranged many years. Upon discovering what his father actually did for a living, the lad took off. Now he's back.
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