With Cinderella in mind, Luca Damiano concocted a very entertaining modern variation with CINDY, starring Selen in perhaps her most flattering screen role. It certainly won't draw anyone (except me) away from the new Disney live-action blockbuster but is a pleasant surprise in a sea of video dross.
First surprise is that U.S. DVD distributor of this type of material, Tip Top Entertainment, issued it with the original Italian soundtrack and English subtitles, rather than no subtitles or crudely English-dubbed as is the norm. This automatically retains the original mood and flavor of the piece.
Cindy is an orphan who inherits a lavish mansion (or castle, since the narrator styles this all as a 20th Century fairy tale). Video opens with a beautifully shot sex sequence of her making love by (and in) her pool with boyfriend Tony (Ramon Nomar, he of the palindrome names). He does a terrific job in the stud department, and as I watched the video I couldn't place him -then realized that he's fairly ubiquitous now in U.S. porn, having relocated here about 10 years after CINDY was shot in Hungary.
Some people are peeping at the couple from behind the bushes, muttering rude remarks, and we soon discover that it is Cindy's mean aunt Magda (Eva Falk, who almost steals the movie - again a parallel XXX to Disney's world of villainesses) and her two daughters. They go to a magistrate and through Eva's sexual wiles convince him to twist the law and assign custodianship of the mansion to Magda, with Cindy as her ward. The beautiful daughters Karen Lancaume and Betty Anderson masturbate watching Eva service the judge -in a surprising scene because I assumed the old guy would be doing a non-sex role for exposition.
Cindy is so good-natured that she takes the turn of events happily, moving into a crummy room (and redecorating it joyfully) and glad for all the female companionship. But in any Saden tale like this, matters pile on our heroine, beginning with her humping Ramon in her room, when the cousins storm in and take him for themselves, ending Cindy's relationship and ending Ramon's participation in this video.
Odd wrinkle (not for Damiano who has handled many screwball subjects including his classic XXX live-action film of SNOW WHITE AND THE 7 DWARFS), the two sisters have active lesbian incest during their troilism scene with Tony -not emphasized for the plot but strong nonetheless.
Magda is now intent on marrying off her daughters (and herself) well, so two wealthy suitors visit the castle: Zenza Raggi and Davide Gladio. Then Magda lines up a baron, well-played by Reinhardt for herself.
A very interesting if outlandish plot twist is introduced at a get-together where Magda has the baron and herself take special eye-drops which I thought would produce an LSD sort of effect but instead merely t4emporarily blinded them, and as they fumble around Magda ends up in the arms of her horny Birtish butler Remigio Zampa while Adam wanders into sleeping Cindy's room and makes love to her.
This is when the Cinderella gimmick finally kicks in but without shoe action: once sight is restored the baron knows by scent and touch that it wasn't Magda he made love to and searches for the mystery girl. He finds out it's Cindy and the rest is history.
But not before the butler puts aphrodisiac drops in everybody's champagne to instigate an orgy. Happy ending has clerks (incoding a cameo by director Luca) from the law court arriving to impound all the furniture cast has just humped upon, due to Magda's failure to pay for most things she's been buying since arriving at the castle. Cindy gets to go off and start a new life with the baron.
If all videos were as well-done as this one I would cease my somewhat nostalgic campaign of railing against the new medium & wishing that 35mm film would make a comeback. But unfortunately CINDY is an anomaly, one of the few storyline porn videos I've seen of late that can make any pretense at being called quality.
