One of Adult Cinema's all-time greats, James Avalon, made this winner of a creative movie, one of the best Adam & Eve's features in years. It's definitely a feather in the cap of leading lady Kenna James.
Avalon, who wrote, directed and edited, kept me guessing as to "who is she?", while teasing the viewer with Kenna's very sarcastic, teasing attitude towards her would-be lover Seth Gamble. Seth encounters her in a coffee shop and comes on way too strong, professing his eternal love to a girl he's never met.
She immediately gives him the cold shoulder, but as he persists Kenna toys with him and finally invites him to visit her. From then on, she flirts, makes highly sarcastic remarks and ends up repeatedly humiliating the lovestruck guy.
Eventually, but long enough to make one wonder if Seth is just weak in the head, he gets fed up and phones her, saying he's through with her. Kenna feels a bit guilty and invites him over to make amends and we find out who she is, a very well-conceived reveal by Avalon, and somehow there's a happy ending.
It's a remarkably serious movie, avoiding the many pitfalls of recent porn, and a satisfying one. The eclectic musical score is helpful, except for Avalon's use of the Saint-Saens "The Carnival of the Animals", so famously used in Malick's classic 1978 movie "Days Of Heaven" early on, way out of place here.
