The 70s French porn that died with VHS and nobody talks about.
Between 1975 and 1983 a new kind of film could be seen in French cinema: home-grown gay pornography. They were essentially the work of three production companies: Les Films de La Troika (Norbert Terry), AMT Productions (Anne-Marie Tensi) and Les Films du Vertbois (principally Jacques Scandelari). The genre met an untimely end with the advent of video, the last being made in 1983 'Mon Ami, Mon Amour (My Friend, my Lover)'.
Direction
Lebrun treats smut with legitimate archival reverence.
Production
Rare footage of a genre that literally doesn't exist anymore.
Director
Hervé Joseph Lebrun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jacques Scandelari's 'Stop' (1970) played Cannes—proving this wasn't underground trash, it was art-world adjacent.
Anne-Marie Tensi of AMT Productions was a rare female producer in 1970s porn, making her films notably less macho than competitors.
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