The most famous Herve in film or TV history has to be that little guy Villechaize of "Fantasy Island' fame. But far more prolific is French helmer Herve Bodilis, a man who has helmed hundreds of video features for Marc Dorcel over the past couple of decades, this being a typically clunky one.
In the "Making of" short subject Bodilis introduces this as a new series spotlighting talented actresses portraying real-life anecdotes from call girls. Call them that, or escorts, but it's just good old prostitution as subject matter, nothing new to the venerable Dorcel canon.
I was taken aback by several klutzy occurrences, beginning with the titling and packaging focused on brand-new Dorcel superstar Ines Lenvin, 27 years old but his new sweet young thing (following in the footsteps of latterly overexposed Lola Reve). Unfortunately, co-star Kimber Delice gets top billing in both opening and closing credits, not Ines. More alarming, Ines is stuck with the contradictory format in which she, Kimber and lovely jail-bait newcomer Luna Rival each are interviewed with their names as if they were the real-life escorts. Yet in a later segment, Ines is named Marie, as an escort who introduces Kimber to the business, all very confusing and sloppy.
What Bodilis delivers is a series of sex vignettes involving prostitutes, with the pretense of story and a wrapraound series format token at best. It's pointless and just a fetish display, as the lovely actresses model sexy undergarments, hose and shoes, and get humped with many a condom in sight. Superstar Claire Castel, who gushes in the idiotic (and patently b.s.-laden) "Making of" that she will only work for Herve, is tossed into the mix to provide anal sex, and not even given a character (no interview for her) to play. Rachel Adjani (thanks for taking decades to ripoff that mainstream superstar's surname, quoth I who actually met the real lady 30 years back at the Russian Tea Room here in Manhattan no less), is another pretty starlet wasted.
