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Ho-hum, disappointing "Lifestyle Porn" from Sin City
I recently added Sin City to my roster of turn of this century Adult labels that I'm studying, due to their emphasis on good, old-fashioned story-line features. This title from cameraman/director Francois Clousot is decidedly flat.
That's a shame, since he's working from a script by Melissa Monet, who I greatly admire. It's a thin story of a tight-knit neighborhood group into whose midst comes newbie Hannah Harper. The DVD's liner notes typically play up all sorts of sexual drama and intrigue, but that is not what we see on screen. The listless vignettes, quite haphazardly directed by Clousot, amount to far less action than any of Joe Sarno's (or even H.G. Lewis's) 1960s sin in suburbia soft-core epics.
Centerpiece is a terrace party for the cast which sort of bookends the feature. I was alarmed that it was just the same scene repeated for cheapness sake, but the cast does have different costumes on (yet the impression it was all filmed at once remains, given Clousot's unimaginative staging).
Subplots supporting the six sex vignettes are just not interesting. A self-appointed matchmaker in the group finagles that Harper will become the new girlfriend of Chris Cannon, replacing his current squeeze, but Monet's script doesn't carry this theme well -it all seems rather arbitrary.
Feature almost comes alive in an edgy scene of Cannon fighting one night with his current gal Devon Michaels. She has given him a blow job when they're out necking in his car, but when he's "too busy" to come into her house and say good night she erupts and the resulting argument is refreshing -putting some oomph momentarily in the dull film. But by the time the scene is over it appears to be just an excuse for Cannon's character to move on so that we can get the inevitable finale of him bedding down with the film's star Harper.
Clearly aimed at couples as were so many of Sin City's effusions, my reaction is that couples deserved far better dramaturgy.
That's a shame, since he's working from a script by Melissa Monet, who I greatly admire. It's a thin story of a tight-knit neighborhood group into whose midst comes newbie Hannah Harper. The DVD's liner notes typically play up all sorts of sexual drama and intrigue, but that is not what we see on screen. The listless vignettes, quite haphazardly directed by Clousot, amount to far less action than any of Joe Sarno's (or even H.G. Lewis's) 1960s sin in suburbia soft-core epics.
Centerpiece is a terrace party for the cast which sort of bookends the feature. I was alarmed that it was just the same scene repeated for cheapness sake, but the cast does have different costumes on (yet the impression it was all filmed at once remains, given Clousot's unimaginative staging).
Subplots supporting the six sex vignettes are just not interesting. A self-appointed matchmaker in the group finagles that Harper will become the new girlfriend of Chris Cannon, replacing his current squeeze, but Monet's script doesn't carry this theme well -it all seems rather arbitrary.
Feature almost comes alive in an edgy scene of Cannon fighting one night with his current gal Devon Michaels. She has given him a blow job when they're out necking in his car, but when he's "too busy" to come into her house and say good night she erupts and the resulting argument is refreshing -putting some oomph momentarily in the dull film. But by the time the scene is over it appears to be just an excuse for Cannon's character to move on so that we can get the inevitable finale of him bedding down with the film's star Harper.
Clearly aimed at couples as were so many of Sin City's effusions, my reaction is that couples deserved far better dramaturgy.