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Ava (Ayla Demirci) has everything to become a pop star, she's got the voice, she's got the looks, and her song are just the middle-of-the-road kind of catchy and un-edgy to reach a mainstream audience. Well, she has got everything but industry contacts. T´hat is, until she meets Renzo (Ricky Burchell), super producer for just the impersonal r'n'b Ava'scut out for, and who makes her sing for him ... and he falls in love, and pretty much promises her to make her a superstar right on the spot. Of course she says yes, as this is all Ava has ever dreamed of. And when I say he falls in love, I mean he falls in love with her body, and soon enouch the two become an item. And Ava seen feels flattered about this, and at the same time totally overlooks that Renzo has ditched his last girlfriend (Alexandra Sanchez), like her a star just waiting to break out, just to be with (or rather have sex with) her. Anyways, her album is only weeks from being released, so what harm could a little denial do to Ava compared to this? Well, the denial comes in Amara (Britney Saysombath), Enzo's new next superstar for whom he's prepared to drop Ava like a hbot potato. And when she complains, he drugs her, takes her to a htoel - and before long, a sex tape starring her is all over the internet ...

Now of course, the film's title Freak Off is based on ta lurid (and proven in court detail of the case of one Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy aka Diddy aka Diddle-dee-dee aka nobody-cares-anymore-about-rappers'-random-name-changes, a mediocre rapper whose main claim to fame is bastardizing The Police's brilliant Every Breath You Take turned even more mediocre but successful music producer and convicted pimp. wjo has forced his respective protegées/girlfriends to having gangbangs he would film for extortion purposes - and this film was released no three weeks before that man's real life conviction.

That said, if you expect anything too lurid from Freak Off you'll probably be disappointed, this is certainly no porn recreation of the story (even if such a film might very well be out there, I haven't checked), and is actually very tame in its representation of sexual situations. Instead the film's a rather heart-felt drama  with a #MeToo backbone, and as such a film that really hits a nerve with contemporary audiences, thanks not so much to its sensationalistic premise but to its clever script and very capable cast - and as such the film's a worthwhile watch for sure .... even if, I have to be onest, the film's music is pretty much af forgettable as - well, the rapper with the pointless name changes would like it to be, so pretty accurate in a way.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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