Lisa Loves, a talented director for daring! Media, is unfortunately joined at the hip with fellow director Kendo, who is her cameraman. For the expert there are clear differences between their directorial styles, but not enough to provide her with self-determination.
I watched this feature will working on a project, sort of as ambient background, and unfortunately that seemed its ultimate purpose, sort of a live-action, XXX video wallpaper. Several of Lisa's other features have been engrossing, but this one (especially due to terrible, repetitive library music) is soporific.
Since I blame her Svengali named Kendo, or Kenneth Docherty in real life, here are the major variances between Mr. K's famous style and that of his protégé Lisa. Although her models wear high heels, "Elegance" is free of fetishism, as they don't wear stockings. In Kendo's porn universe, the tactile look and implied feel of hose, pantyhose, latex and rubber against skin occupies a central role.
Also, there is a perceptible softer tone to Lisa's depiction of humping, as if she whispered to the Eastern European cast (most of whom are fluent in English, although not permitted to speak in this show's pantomime format) "keep it soft and sensual". Kendo's sex scenes are also sensual, but tend to go over the top, especially when injecting BDSM elements.
But the overpowering influence of Kendo sinks this enterprise: Lisa has imbibed his Kool Aid concerning fake artiness, as the entire cast adopts the aloof, cold and distant pose that K insists upon, an enemy of eroticism. Worse yet, K and his camera fellow/editor "Cymballs" insist on extreme cropping that removes the personalities (and faces, as well as full bodies) of the players, showing them with odd framings and disembodied body parts only.
Of the five segments, the finale showed promise but was ruined, perhaps unintentionally (I'll never know or really care overmuch). The four previous scenes utilize program music from the same library Kendo taps, with droning strings arrangements or meandering piano, more of a vamp than actual music. But when pretty Candy Alexa shows up in a bar setting, beautifully back lit with soft violet or pink lights, to be humped by good old Chatsworth regular Anthony Hardwood (returning to his native Europe late in his career) the scene begins with sexy, after hours jazz playing and saxophone wailing, highly appropriate to the setting. But after a couple of minutes the too-familiar strains of the strings we've already heard before are repeated, dragging the scene down to nothingness. So what if Alexa takes it in the rear -all these girls (and seemingly every Adult actress in Europe) does.
The BTS short subject on the DVD, in which Kendo briefly interviews Lisa (as if to prove that she really exists and is not merely (as I once assumed) a daring! brand name & logo: "Lisa Loves", has her copying his b.s. admonition of preferring to work with Eastern Euro talent rather than British players as they are more sensual and less gung-ho/gonzo.
Yet the husband-wife team of Nick Lang and Cathy Campbell are deadly dull in their pairing, apparently better off humping strangers for pay and getting together for less strenuous activities after work.
"Elegance" suggests opulence and style (fashion-wise), or in a more general sense (as in an Elegant mathematical proof or Elegant legal argument) simplicity, neatness and directness of expression. Lisa and her amanuensis Kendo opt instead for artifice and phoniness, not what the doctor ordered.
I watched this feature will working on a project, sort of as ambient background, and unfortunately that seemed its ultimate purpose, sort of a live-action, XXX video wallpaper. Several of Lisa's other features have been engrossing, but this one (especially due to terrible, repetitive library music) is soporific.
Since I blame her Svengali named Kendo, or Kenneth Docherty in real life, here are the major variances between Mr. K's famous style and that of his protégé Lisa. Although her models wear high heels, "Elegance" is free of fetishism, as they don't wear stockings. In Kendo's porn universe, the tactile look and implied feel of hose, pantyhose, latex and rubber against skin occupies a central role.
Also, there is a perceptible softer tone to Lisa's depiction of humping, as if she whispered to the Eastern European cast (most of whom are fluent in English, although not permitted to speak in this show's pantomime format) "keep it soft and sensual". Kendo's sex scenes are also sensual, but tend to go over the top, especially when injecting BDSM elements.
But the overpowering influence of Kendo sinks this enterprise: Lisa has imbibed his Kool Aid concerning fake artiness, as the entire cast adopts the aloof, cold and distant pose that K insists upon, an enemy of eroticism. Worse yet, K and his camera fellow/editor "Cymballs" insist on extreme cropping that removes the personalities (and faces, as well as full bodies) of the players, showing them with odd framings and disembodied body parts only.
Of the five segments, the finale showed promise but was ruined, perhaps unintentionally (I'll never know or really care overmuch). The four previous scenes utilize program music from the same library Kendo taps, with droning strings arrangements or meandering piano, more of a vamp than actual music. But when pretty Candy Alexa shows up in a bar setting, beautifully back lit with soft violet or pink lights, to be humped by good old Chatsworth regular Anthony Hardwood (returning to his native Europe late in his career) the scene begins with sexy, after hours jazz playing and saxophone wailing, highly appropriate to the setting. But after a couple of minutes the too-familiar strains of the strings we've already heard before are repeated, dragging the scene down to nothingness. So what if Alexa takes it in the rear -all these girls (and seemingly every Adult actress in Europe) does.
The BTS short subject on the DVD, in which Kendo briefly interviews Lisa (as if to prove that she really exists and is not merely (as I once assumed) a daring! brand name & logo: "Lisa Loves", has her copying his b.s. admonition of preferring to work with Eastern Euro talent rather than British players as they are more sensual and less gung-ho/gonzo.
Yet the husband-wife team of Nick Lang and Cathy Campbell are deadly dull in their pairing, apparently better off humping strangers for pay and getting together for less strenuous activities after work.
"Elegance" suggests opulence and style (fashion-wise), or in a more general sense (as in an Elegant mathematical proof or Elegant legal argument) simplicity, neatness and directness of expression. Lisa and her amanuensis Kendo opt instead for artifice and phoniness, not what the doctor ordered.