I watched a couple of Rocco Siffredi porn videos many, many years ago and was always put off by his "nasty" streak. In fact, he likes the word "nasty". I hated his bullying attitude, disguised as a love of women. This is an interesting documentary regarding his decision to pack it all up. It's a shame he didn't take that decision long ago. I felt sorry for the poor, degraded victims of his particular brand of punishment. They probably have their reasons for participating. I only hope they'll learn a lesson and move on.

I don't know why he carries his idiot relative around with him to do the photography. They obviously dislike each other and he's incapable of doing a professional job. Why not hire a proper photographer? It only makes sense in the context of his being Family. A distinctly Italian thing.

So he loves his Mama, hates his partner in crime, and seems to be ignored by his kids (sensible pair of boys). What his ex-porn wife sees in him, God only knows. After watching this I felt primarily sad for his victims.

An interesting watch, as long as you read between the lines.

"Rocco" opens with porn actor Rocco Siffredi talking about a "devil between his legs," his dark side that is permanently threatening to destroy his life. It's too bad that the filmmakers never make any effort to expose this devil and instead seem give their subject complete control over their project. The result is definitely interesting, and sporadically very funny, but unfortunately shies away from Rocco's darkest fears and the low-points of his life.

For those unaware, Rocco is a porn actor known for very rough scenes, though apparently (judging from this movie, at least) the work atmosphere on his sets is quite friendly and supportive of the women he works with. You could obviously question if the team is always this nice to the actresses, even when they are not being filmed by outsiders or the women decide in the last minute they don't want to do the really hard stuff, and since the directors rarely interview the porn stars without Rocco present, that element of the film doesn't hold up to much scrutiny. We just have to believe the movie that Rocco is always a nice guy to every girl he has sex in front of a camera with, and your willingness to sympathize with the main character in his more emotional scenes will likely depend on wether you go along with that or not.

Speaking of emotional scenes, there are a couple in which Siffredi talks about his family life growing up, or his family life now, and in these moments he seems honest and open about his feelings. However, once more the film suffers from a lack of outside perspective from people who might give a more critical account of our star's private behaviour. The scenes with his sons in particular are awkward to watch, and you can clearly see how uncomfortable they are with being filmed while their dad talks to them about porn.

Most of the movie is centered around Rocco with very few outsiders commenting on the man or his work. One is his wife, though we only get a few lines from her about how great a guy her husband is. Another is his cousin and co-worker Gabby, though he serves more as comedic relief (the disappointed look on his face after Siffredi simplifies a set piece he thought of is hilarious and sad at the same time) than he does provide a different viewpoint on the hardcore scenes he films. The only person who manages to take the spotlight away from Rocco and affect the way we see him is fellow porn actress Kelly Stafford, who stole the movie for me. Not only does she offer a female opinion on porn of Rocco's caliber, her friendship with the man, which ostensibly goes much deeper than a mere business relationship, is also very believable and heartwarming.

Overall, if you're interested in how porn scenes are filmed, this film might be of interest to you. Just don't expect it to be very critical of its subject.

The documentary film portrays the personal life of Rocco Tano better known by the stage name (Rocco Siffredi), the conflict as it was to enter pornography and since he was a child he felt something in his legs and his mother caught him in the act of masturbating (there was a window to see the bathroom) and smiled mischievously and said to his son: - Now you're already a man! When he finally turned 18 he told his mother that he wanted to see a porn actor and she questioned: -Is that so? Want to be a porn actor? - Yes I want! And she accepted her son and as his father he was not accepted, and even so with his insistence to be a porn actor and he was! He started his career in the movie Porsche: The Girl ... the Car ... the Legend (1987) and met his wife in the movie (I don't remember what the movie was), they got married and had two sons. having a family he continued making films as well as directing (he was not just an actor) he planned what would happen on the scene and this he accumulated over 565 films (became a legend) in his career!

And his son didn't know his father was a porn actor, even if he didn't know it wouldn't make any difference since he's a great father and friend!

As I know there are a lot of activists against pornography, and Rocco does not treat women as an object in his scenes, he harmonizes what must be done, if there is one thing the woman does not like to do in scenes, everything is fine!

A phrase marked me a documentary film

Women are my passion. Women are my life, an endless discovery. I've always tried ... to avoid disappointing a woman. When I meet a woman who asks me to continue, to go deeper, I can't say to her, "Wait. I'm exhausted. I need to rest."