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Incredibly padded, not the bras but the direction
"A Wife's Affair", from the prolific if creativity-challenged porn pair Stills & Mills, is pretentiously presented as a prequel and an "origins story", imitating the mainstream money-grubbers like Marvel. It runs nearly 3 hours with content that should have been made a single scene, perhaps 25 minutes, tacked on to the main series "The Business of Women".
I enjoyed "Business" as Camp, with its all-female cast posturing, when not fingering and licking each other in prescribed Sapphic fashion, in the popular manner best exemplified currently by the so radically different "Empire" TV series. But the story of how the villains became villains (sort of porno answer to DC's "Gotham" TV show) is not delivered, just sex by 3 of the baddies.
Having just 3 cast members hump for two hours and 45 minutes is violating every rule I know of porn production, but Bree & Alan don't care. Sure there are the invisible cameos by husbands, two crew members (only one of which I was able to identify) pressed into service, but they don't count. And the star of "Business", the incomparable India Summer, never shows up, merely name-dropped endlessly by the other characters, notably her assistant Charlotte Stokely who insists she be referred to as "Miss Summer".
Most annoying aspect of the direction by Stills by Alan is a sort of "location sex" concept which was ludicrous. There are five overlong sex vignettes, but the first one involving stars Abela Danger and Vanessa Veracruz set the tone: they hump in one room; then stop, then start again in another room, then with very poor continuity, suddenly they've made it to the bedroom -all counting as one "scene", in the parlance of porn (i.e., "How many scenes did you shoot last year, Miss Akira?").
This lapse merely underscored a major problem of the Lesbian Cinema genre which Stills & Mills have jumped into and pretended to dominate (if you believe their p.r.). Much as I have always hated the cliché, a XXX scene generally ends with the money shot -we're talking boy/girl (and boy/boy for that matter). In Lesbian Cinema there is no hard and fast rule for how to complete a sex scene -even an "orgasm" is not really reliable since most performers either have or can fake multiple orgasms. I've seen rare occasions on screen where guys have 2 or 3 orgasms in quick succession, but few if any can do that on cue.
So later in the video Alan has the gals repeat this gimmick: sex in the kitchen, then the living room, then the bedroom -just repetitive and time consuming. With only 3 characters and no dicks he has very little to work with, and comes up with very little to show for himself.
Plotwise it has to be considered brain-dead. To summarize briefly (not taking 2 hours plus): Neighbors Abela and Vanessa are both unhappily married, have a lesbian affair, and then are fooled by wily Charlotte into becoming slaves (at different levels, with Vanessa a rung above) in India's international call girl empire. I briefly enjoyed Charlotte's underhandedness, but even that is poorly directed by Alan, who may have gone to film school (or photography school to become Stills by Alan before the Peter Principle escalated him upward to the director's chair) but he never learned anything about acting or directing actors, even a basic element like blocking.
I continue to watch as many of Bree Mills' DVDs as I can stomach, eschewing the innumerable websites for which this content is originally cranked out. Though Alan's work is marginally better than his stablemate (in Bree's stable) Barrett Blade's videos, it's quite a perverse chore keeping these folks honest, to counteract the drivel spewed out by industry types, who are wont to praise to the skies anything with a big name or proper payola behind it.
I enjoyed "Business" as Camp, with its all-female cast posturing, when not fingering and licking each other in prescribed Sapphic fashion, in the popular manner best exemplified currently by the so radically different "Empire" TV series. But the story of how the villains became villains (sort of porno answer to DC's "Gotham" TV show) is not delivered, just sex by 3 of the baddies.
Having just 3 cast members hump for two hours and 45 minutes is violating every rule I know of porn production, but Bree & Alan don't care. Sure there are the invisible cameos by husbands, two crew members (only one of which I was able to identify) pressed into service, but they don't count. And the star of "Business", the incomparable India Summer, never shows up, merely name-dropped endlessly by the other characters, notably her assistant Charlotte Stokely who insists she be referred to as "Miss Summer".
Most annoying aspect of the direction by Stills by Alan is a sort of "location sex" concept which was ludicrous. There are five overlong sex vignettes, but the first one involving stars Abela Danger and Vanessa Veracruz set the tone: they hump in one room; then stop, then start again in another room, then with very poor continuity, suddenly they've made it to the bedroom -all counting as one "scene", in the parlance of porn (i.e., "How many scenes did you shoot last year, Miss Akira?").
This lapse merely underscored a major problem of the Lesbian Cinema genre which Stills & Mills have jumped into and pretended to dominate (if you believe their p.r.). Much as I have always hated the cliché, a XXX scene generally ends with the money shot -we're talking boy/girl (and boy/boy for that matter). In Lesbian Cinema there is no hard and fast rule for how to complete a sex scene -even an "orgasm" is not really reliable since most performers either have or can fake multiple orgasms. I've seen rare occasions on screen where guys have 2 or 3 orgasms in quick succession, but few if any can do that on cue.
So later in the video Alan has the gals repeat this gimmick: sex in the kitchen, then the living room, then the bedroom -just repetitive and time consuming. With only 3 characters and no dicks he has very little to work with, and comes up with very little to show for himself.
Plotwise it has to be considered brain-dead. To summarize briefly (not taking 2 hours plus): Neighbors Abela and Vanessa are both unhappily married, have a lesbian affair, and then are fooled by wily Charlotte into becoming slaves (at different levels, with Vanessa a rung above) in India's international call girl empire. I briefly enjoyed Charlotte's underhandedness, but even that is poorly directed by Alan, who may have gone to film school (or photography school to become Stills by Alan before the Peter Principle escalated him upward to the director's chair) but he never learned anything about acting or directing actors, even a basic element like blocking.
I continue to watch as many of Bree Mills' DVDs as I can stomach, eschewing the innumerable websites for which this content is originally cranked out. Though Alan's work is marginally better than his stablemate (in Bree's stable) Barrett Blade's videos, it's quite a perverse chore keeping these folks honest, to counteract the drivel spewed out by industry types, who are wont to praise to the skies anything with a big name or proper payola behind it.
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- lor_
- Jun 22, 2016
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