Just when I had assumed that Dorcel BDSM lite features had settled into a boring, predictable rut, "Claire la Soumise" comes along to breathe a tiny bit of life into this moribund genre. For some reason, house director Herve Bodilis decided to expend an extra effort this time (after at least 200 previous mediocre videos to his name) and the result is worth watching.
There are many incidents and characters but suffice it to say that Claire Castel in the eponymous role is engaging and empathetic, as the innocent Real Estate lady who gets caught up in the strange (and now extremely trendy post-"50 Shades") world of bondage after she goes to a book signing by popular author Jean Lefort (Rico Simmons, investing his role with quality underplaying).
He leaves her a note to contact him, and eventually she attends a dinner party at his home, presided over by Lefort's wife Lucy (the striking Lucy Heart). Claire is the only innocent among the guests, whose experience with kinky sex is evidently on a level of America's leading lady in that department, Nina Hartley.
While they calmly dine, submissive Mina Sauvage (a real talent, previously starring for Dorcel in "Diary of a Student") is selected by Lucy to crawl under the dinner table and orally service everyone attending, male and female. Claire understandably balks at this unexpected development, and is permitted to abstain, but the existence of an unusual world from which she has previously been excluded is firmly planted in her psyche.
Lots of other incidents occur, but ultimately Claire agrees to enter into Jean's universe of domination and submission, leading to highly satisfying group sex scenes involving her. Castel usually works for director Bodilis and here delivers some of her best sexual performances to date, as well as creating an endearing character.
Also making a good impression is a new Dorcel potential superstar Ania Kinski, tall and dominant as a prostitute selected to instruct neophyte Claire, while Candy Alexa, the only cast member who reads her lines in English rather than French, is also one sexy babe. Credit Bodilis for a successful mixture of story values, characterizations, gonzo sex and the trademark Dorcel glamour, quite different from his generally mindless and mechanical cinematic exercises.
NOTE: Thankfully, Bodilis made a very fine sequel a year later continuing the saga with beautiful American actress Lana Rhoades joining the cast in the lead role: "Lana la soumise".
There are many incidents and characters but suffice it to say that Claire Castel in the eponymous role is engaging and empathetic, as the innocent Real Estate lady who gets caught up in the strange (and now extremely trendy post-"50 Shades") world of bondage after she goes to a book signing by popular author Jean Lefort (Rico Simmons, investing his role with quality underplaying).
He leaves her a note to contact him, and eventually she attends a dinner party at his home, presided over by Lefort's wife Lucy (the striking Lucy Heart). Claire is the only innocent among the guests, whose experience with kinky sex is evidently on a level of America's leading lady in that department, Nina Hartley.
While they calmly dine, submissive Mina Sauvage (a real talent, previously starring for Dorcel in "Diary of a Student") is selected by Lucy to crawl under the dinner table and orally service everyone attending, male and female. Claire understandably balks at this unexpected development, and is permitted to abstain, but the existence of an unusual world from which she has previously been excluded is firmly planted in her psyche.
Lots of other incidents occur, but ultimately Claire agrees to enter into Jean's universe of domination and submission, leading to highly satisfying group sex scenes involving her. Castel usually works for director Bodilis and here delivers some of her best sexual performances to date, as well as creating an endearing character.
Also making a good impression is a new Dorcel potential superstar Ania Kinski, tall and dominant as a prostitute selected to instruct neophyte Claire, while Candy Alexa, the only cast member who reads her lines in English rather than French, is also one sexy babe. Credit Bodilis for a successful mixture of story values, characterizations, gonzo sex and the trademark Dorcel glamour, quite different from his generally mindless and mechanical cinematic exercises.
NOTE: Thankfully, Bodilis made a very fine sequel a year later continuing the saga with beautiful American actress Lana Rhoades joining the cast in the lead role: "Lana la soumise".