Much as British director John Schlesinger brought a fresh, outsider's view to a New York story with "Midnight Cowboy", Lasse Braun gives a different look to sex in Manhattan in this perversely captivating Adult movie.
Robert Bulloch plays a novelist who behaves quite strangely, yet matter-of-factly throughout. First scene has Stacy Donovan modeling lingerie for him in his apartment.
His brother (Rod Retta) visits and humps Stacy on the couch while Bullock watches. He's a voyeur and while director Lasse keeps most scenes ambiguous, it becomes clear that much if not all of the sex Bullock views and participates in amounts to just erotic fantasies he's having.
These fantasies and the number of coincidences in Braun's screenplay take the movie into a sort of dreamland, but presented casually as if this sort of thing happens all the time.
For example, the daughter Taija Rae of a neighbor couple in the apartment building (Colleen Brennan and Ashley Moore) shows up with her drunken friend Scarlett Scarleau, locked out of Taija's apartment after a party. Then Moore and Brennan show up to fetch Taija, and all hell breaks loose sexually.
In various combinations, they have sex with each other while Bullock watches, and his brother Retta shows up too for sex. Highpoint of this fantastic series of XXX scenes is incest of Taija and daddy Moore on the couch with Scarlett participating, content no longer permissible in current porn.
Upshot is the big reveal: Bullock has a store mannequin named Susan in his apartment wearing a blonde wig and lingerie that Robert keeps buying for her, and he masturbates while hugging Susan, after trying on some of the lingerie himself. Pretty weird but oh so normal in terms of the way it's presented.
Lots more sex remains, as a beautiful pair of typists (Siobhan Hunter and Kristara Barrington) spot Bullock writing near a bridge and get hired to type up his new novel, cuing group sex with him, Brennan and brother Retta.
At the end, one is left wondering what was real and what was just imagined by our writer protagonist. With his pals sound asleep, Bullock ends the movie by apolgizing to his true love, Susan the mannequin. I liked the fact that Braun did not have it come to life, that nearly mandatory and corny gimmick in similar "living doll" movies.
Robert Bulloch plays a novelist who behaves quite strangely, yet matter-of-factly throughout. First scene has Stacy Donovan modeling lingerie for him in his apartment.
His brother (Rod Retta) visits and humps Stacy on the couch while Bullock watches. He's a voyeur and while director Lasse keeps most scenes ambiguous, it becomes clear that much if not all of the sex Bullock views and participates in amounts to just erotic fantasies he's having.
These fantasies and the number of coincidences in Braun's screenplay take the movie into a sort of dreamland, but presented casually as if this sort of thing happens all the time.
For example, the daughter Taija Rae of a neighbor couple in the apartment building (Colleen Brennan and Ashley Moore) shows up with her drunken friend Scarlett Scarleau, locked out of Taija's apartment after a party. Then Moore and Brennan show up to fetch Taija, and all hell breaks loose sexually.
In various combinations, they have sex with each other while Bullock watches, and his brother Retta shows up too for sex. Highpoint of this fantastic series of XXX scenes is incest of Taija and daddy Moore on the couch with Scarlett participating, content no longer permissible in current porn.
Upshot is the big reveal: Bullock has a store mannequin named Susan in his apartment wearing a blonde wig and lingerie that Robert keeps buying for her, and he masturbates while hugging Susan, after trying on some of the lingerie himself. Pretty weird but oh so normal in terms of the way it's presented.
Lots more sex remains, as a beautiful pair of typists (Siobhan Hunter and Kristara Barrington) spot Bullock writing near a bridge and get hired to type up his new novel, cuing group sex with him, Brennan and brother Retta.
At the end, one is left wondering what was real and what was just imagined by our writer protagonist. With his pals sound asleep, Bullock ends the movie by apolgizing to his true love, Susan the mannequin. I liked the fact that Braun did not have it come to life, that nearly mandatory and corny gimmick in similar "living doll" movies.