Has anyone seen this yet? I thought they had given up making porn but apparently there are a few more movies in the works, including "All About Anna". The director and leads have mainstream acting chops, so I have high hopes for this one. I like their mission statement, and well, this dude Marc Stevens looks HOT!!!

from their website:
All About Anna, produced by Innocent Pictures in association with Zentropa, is a romantic comedy with explicit erotic scenes. It follows the Puzzy Power Manifesto developed by Zentropa in 1998, and is made by women, for women.

"All About Anna" is an attempt to create a new type of erotic film, based on real life rather than on the wish-fulfilling fantasies that characterize traditional sex movies. It portrays a type of woman with whom we all are familiar, fighting with problems most women know all too well. The film is also an attempt to integrate explicit sex as part of the storytelling and character development. Thus, the film's sex scenes never come out of nowhere but are part of defining the characters and their relationships, just as you'd expect from a song in a musical or a pas-de-deux in a Bournonville ballet. The sex scenes were carefully planned and rehearsed prior to shooting, allowing the actors to stay in character through every embrace and caress. Without the sex scenes, the film's drama would fall apart.

Anna is played by the Danish film and musical star Gry Bay. "All About Anna" marks the first time ever an established mainstream actress has chosen to star in an explicit erotic film. It also marks a culmination of the gradual slide towards use of explicit images in art house cinema which was initiated by Lars von Trier's Dogme-success "Idioterne".

Johan, the male lead in "All About Anna", is played by the English actor Mark Stevens who was born in Zimbabwe and, after graduating from Birmingham University, trained at The Birmingham Theatre School.

and here's an older AVN article...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Zentropa Enterprizes has become the world's first major mainstream film studio to get into the hardcore porn business.

The independent production company, founded in 1992 by acclaimed director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Ålbæk Jensen, is producing adult fare through their Innocent Pictures production company and its subdivisions HotMale (gay) and Puzzy Power.

"Von Trier has always been appreciative of sex, and crossing barriers, expanding the envelope in all sorts of ways," Executive Creative Producer and co-owner Nicolas Barbano told AVN. "It actually goes back to the late '70s, when he was at film school, and he wanted for his graduation project to film the Marquis de Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom. Unfortunately the headmaster of the school nixed it..."

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Edited by - dumblonde on Aug 26 2004

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