“What’s wrong with porn?”: Monica Stambrini on sex, eroticism and ageing
It isn’t always pretty, it doesn’t end with menopause, and it can start with an onion. For Monica Stambrini, desire is everywhere – if you’re free enough to follow it.
Monica Stambrini was born in California in 1970 and raised in Italy by a romagnolo father with few taboos, who dipped her bread in red wine and took her to Bergman films. At 15, Fanny and Alexander made her want to direct. Her debut, Benzina, a lesbian love story, passed the censors with no age rating. Later, when Italian women’s response to Berlusconi seemed to be pushing them away from sex, she asked the women directors she…
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