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Last Summer 2023
I have thoughts.
They haven't all come to me yet, but they will.
I'll say for now that this film transcends its seeming subgenre of Pornhub trappings due to one significant, glaring truth: DESIRE is an untamable beast. It cares not for social mores, relational boundaries, or other such strictures. It simply, if left unchecked, roars like a tempest.
And when you've got Lea Drucker's facial acting and sheer presence on the other side of that conflagration, well. now you've got a melodrama that shockingly rings truer than could once be imagined.
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