Not just a study of how porn has degenerated from adult-oriented love stories to rank perversion, it’s also a film about how the movies themselves have changed.
FILM CRITIC

Essentially, the film is about the brutalisation of feeling. Léaud’s performance, a study in weary hope over experience, is as expressive as anything he has done in years…The film is beautifully shot so that the sinister urban landscapes within which it is set contrast with the idealised countryside of the director’s dreams. The fact that even on the level of porno things aren’t what they used to be renders Bonello’s film stronger and more appropriate.
THE GUARDIAN

A thoughtful examination of the strictures of reputation and the increasing difficulty of making meaningful movies.
THE RADIO TIMES

A cool, thoughtful character study, in which pornography can be read as a metaphor for the practice of film-making…”The Pornographer” takes its subject matter seriously
BBC