Sun Stroke
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- 2016
- 1h 41m
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Pleasant but virtually all-sex feature for Couples
I greatly admire the stick-to-itiveness of Britain's JoyBear label and its honcho Justin Ribeiro Dos Santis for releasing only Couples-oriented romantic content over its decade-plus history: I can only think of Sweet Sinner as a similarly single-minded outfit that didn't create a gonzo subsidiary (although SS is itself a sub of Canadian distributor Mile High which has numerous gonzo labels on its roster such as Reality Junkies). With "Sun Stroke", the filmmaker Jessie Black fails to develop any sort of reasonable story line (unlike his excellent "Ball Control" made for the label the same year), instead merely piling on barely related and randomly ordered sex scenes while voicing over himself a weak excuse for characters and "plot".
The requisite five sex scenes are set at a lovely Spanish villa owned by a record producer, who's lent it to superstar deejay Cosmo Anderson (played by Spanish stud Juan Lucho), with the potentially rom-com (if there were a script, dialog or acting, none of which are present) situation developing immediately as the producer's beautiful niece Chloe (Anissa Kate) also arrives to stay.
They cohabit the mansion, but Cosmo finds the beauty and her wide array of visiting friends totally distracting from his quest to build a great new song. Before Chloe takes over the screen, we see him wandering around with sound equipment recording all manner of natural sounds for inspiration, representing sort of a porno equivalent of Oscar-winner Ben Burtt.
Most of the feature is centered around a pool party, which in its soft- core moments recalls many a video of yesteryear. Various participants have sex and after emerging from his editing room auteur Black presents such scenes out of order, or in the case of Kate, cross-cutting to all- purpose masturbation scenes by the French superstar to punch up other sex scenes where she's not directly involved in the action. Kate's involvement is what makes watching "Sun Stroke" not altogether a waste of time - I watched it immediately after staring adoringly at Gal Gadot for over two hours in "Wonder Woman" at my local Chelsea cinema, and both artistes have a similar effect as authentic Screen Goddesses.
Most comfortable couple is not surprisingly Spanish stars Joel and Alexa Thomas, both of whom work worldwide but are here paired with each other. Alexa handles hubby's very long dick (it resembles in porn history almost exactly that of famed player of yesteryear Lee Stone) with aplomb. Several of the girls in the mainly Spanish cast present the natural, nearly flat-chested look, as in Amber Nevada and Gina Sweet afforded a lesbian scene. The pool affords brief but well-shot nude underwater photography, and overall the lovely, simple visuals of skin (but no sand -couldn't afford a beach visit) fit the Romantic bill.
Within a sex scene Black's editing is very poor, frequently jump-cutting from a single camera placement, jarring the viewer and seriously detracting from the involvement which can make even these minimalist erotic exercises arousing. Thematically, glorifying the "artistry" of a deejay makes me angry, as I never drank the Kool Aid that convinced so many ignorant folk -taking my lifelong jazz fanatic point-of-view - that sampling or merely playing other people's creative work can make one an artist, akin to collage practitioners in Fine Art or pastiche writers in Literature circles.
The requisite five sex scenes are set at a lovely Spanish villa owned by a record producer, who's lent it to superstar deejay Cosmo Anderson (played by Spanish stud Juan Lucho), with the potentially rom-com (if there were a script, dialog or acting, none of which are present) situation developing immediately as the producer's beautiful niece Chloe (Anissa Kate) also arrives to stay.
They cohabit the mansion, but Cosmo finds the beauty and her wide array of visiting friends totally distracting from his quest to build a great new song. Before Chloe takes over the screen, we see him wandering around with sound equipment recording all manner of natural sounds for inspiration, representing sort of a porno equivalent of Oscar-winner Ben Burtt.
Most of the feature is centered around a pool party, which in its soft- core moments recalls many a video of yesteryear. Various participants have sex and after emerging from his editing room auteur Black presents such scenes out of order, or in the case of Kate, cross-cutting to all- purpose masturbation scenes by the French superstar to punch up other sex scenes where she's not directly involved in the action. Kate's involvement is what makes watching "Sun Stroke" not altogether a waste of time - I watched it immediately after staring adoringly at Gal Gadot for over two hours in "Wonder Woman" at my local Chelsea cinema, and both artistes have a similar effect as authentic Screen Goddesses.
Most comfortable couple is not surprisingly Spanish stars Joel and Alexa Thomas, both of whom work worldwide but are here paired with each other. Alexa handles hubby's very long dick (it resembles in porn history almost exactly that of famed player of yesteryear Lee Stone) with aplomb. Several of the girls in the mainly Spanish cast present the natural, nearly flat-chested look, as in Amber Nevada and Gina Sweet afforded a lesbian scene. The pool affords brief but well-shot nude underwater photography, and overall the lovely, simple visuals of skin (but no sand -couldn't afford a beach visit) fit the Romantic bill.
Within a sex scene Black's editing is very poor, frequently jump-cutting from a single camera placement, jarring the viewer and seriously detracting from the involvement which can make even these minimalist erotic exercises arousing. Thematically, glorifying the "artistry" of a deejay makes me angry, as I never drank the Kool Aid that convinced so many ignorant folk -taking my lifelong jazz fanatic point-of-view - that sampling or merely playing other people's creative work can make one an artist, akin to collage practitioners in Fine Art or pastiche writers in Literature circles.
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- lor_
- Jun 11, 2017
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