Les nuits d'une bourgeoise

Anna Polina, one of the very best stars in the 40-year history of Marc Dorcel's porn label, gets her best recent role in this quality tale of a neglected wife.

Director Herve Bodilis uses recurring 2-shots through the windshield of her and hubby Ricky Mancini driving at night, which show the palpable distance and coolness between them, making the viewer understand why she engages repetitively in the "perverse games" of the DVD's English-language title.

We see her wander into the woods in the opening sex scene wearing very skimpy lingerie to be serviced by big-dick Joss Lescaf, who has gone on to featured roles in many a blacked.com/tushy.com vignette following his Euro porn career.

Instead of going to the ballet with her husband, she insists on going to their favorite club, where she services a number of bald club clients, much to the delight of the venue's owner. She catches Mancini having sex Anna's BFF Tamara Grace, and gets even with him later. How all this results in a happy ending in which the couple reconciles is part of the dark tale's peculiar charm.

Brit Porn star Grace, who has appeared in Dorcel pictures made by Liselle Bailey and Dick Bush back in England, is effective in her guest role, while a new, exotic star for Dorcel, Cassie del Isla, heats up a couple of sex scenes as well.