The Art of Control

My knock on BDSM, not the real-life thing but rather the increasingly popular entertainment world representations, is its boredom factor. Even the outré descriptions by the Marquis de Sade tend to be static tableaux of torture, almost anti-cinematic.

British porn director DiSanto likes to inject elements of bondage and rough sex into his mainstream work, and is eminently successful here - perhaps his finest video to date for the daring! Media label.

Stella Cox stars as the central character, called into his office by her boss (I think it's Ben Kelly) and reprimanded while he also makes unveiled advances. Back home in an attic setting, dressed in sexy fetish-gear framing her beautiful breasts, Stella voices over her erotic thoughts, as she daydreams several sex vignettes, each one highly arousing, in preparation for a gang-bang finale in which she handles 3 studs (including the boss) at once.

The action is all straight boy/girl porn, but the trappings are threatening moods and latex/bondage paraphernalia. The title refers to the men being in control, and Stella (plus her imaginary femme counterparts) willing submissives. Similar to Jacky St. James' stateside porn, actual sex takes precedence over the more arcane practices of sadists and masochists.

The other women are not conventionally beautiful but all possess an erotic quality that is hard to resist. Chessie Kay is spotlighted on the cover of the DVD and makes a very strong impression. Jaiden West is a newcomer in the Brooklyn Blue school, with an at times evil-looking scowl on her face, as prelude to Stella's all-stops-out finale.

Color grading, dramatic use of shallow and pulled focus (in the manner developed years back by Kendo, also for the daring! Label) and pacing are all top-notch in yielding a polished final product..