(For that, you’ll need to rent Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s excellent, NC-17-rated documentary “Inside Deep Throat.’’)
The emphasis is less on Deep Throat’s cultural legacy as a crossover hit, feminist talking point, and Watergate code word (all covered at length in 2005’s Inside Deep Throat) than on the psychological trauma faced by Lovelace herself, and on that level, the film is strong.
The cast and crew of the porn phenomenon enjoy the publicity, which explodes into an international, mainstream sensation, as documented in Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s Inside Deep Throat (2005).
For a sense of just how repressive the culture was (various jurisdictions prosecuted the “Deep Throat” folks for obscenity), check out the 2005 documentary, “Inside Deep Throat.”
It’s also telling that “ Inside Deep Throat ,” a well-received 2005 documentary looking at the cultural impact of the 1972 film , spent most of its energy examining the role of “Deep Throat” — and, by extension, Lovelace — in the sexual revolution, giving only scant attention to her allegations.
In that respect, the film comes off as a much-needed corrective to the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat, which offered a fizzy, upbeat take on the making of Deep Throat and the film’s strange afterlife.