Prostitution

"Prostitution" at first glance appears to be a rare diversion by veteran French pornographer Marc Dorcel into the pro-am sphere, but with at least one superstar ringer it ends up qualifying as his glamorous style of XXX Euro porn.

That superstar is #1 in the Dorcel stable Anna Polina, quite effective in her group sex segment entitled provocatively "Anna Polina - I am not a prostitute". We know that, but to prove her point after servicing a guy she throws his money away into the air in disdain.

Final vignette in the short film is an all-time classic entitled simply "Call Girl". Isabella Clark, severely styled with a platinum blonde hairdo, is truly amazing, distinctively beautiful and kinky as she takes care of a customer who just might be a civilian. Keeping her hand firmly clamped over his mouth (in suffocation mode) throughout regardless of position, she does a job on the guy that is spectacular, even including a dangerous stiletto shoe massage of his exposed dick and balls. Director Philippe Soine, who was previously not on my radar even among Dorcel house directors, ends with a bang by leaving the final "coup de grace" shot by Isabella strictly to the viewer's imagination.

The ho-hum (even pointless) nature of the other segments detracts from the overall impact of the work, as in a guy humping a whore in her window-perched apartment (set in Amsterdam apparently) that has atmosphere but little else going for it.

The greatest all-time movie in this genre featuring a pro-am cast is (and surely will remain) Barbet Schroeder's classic "Maitresse" starring Bulle Ogier as a dominatrix who abuses a series of masochists, all cast with real-life masochists who jumped at the chance to be in the movie. Her sang-froid is certainly a model for Clark's similarly classic turn here, but with XXX content added compared to Schroeder's single-X approach.