Lisa

A great filmmaker Kris Kramski delivers a '60s-style Adult movie, with Road Movie aspects in "Lisa", something of a valentine to his talented French import star Liza Harper. I had become a fan of this Gallic beauty after seeing her in Paul Thomas's "To Die For", and she's even more impressive in this earlier effort.

With a delightful French accent, explosive personality, twinkling eyes and winning smile, Liza commands the screen as a cheated-upon wife who finally blows up at her smug, relatively clueless husband Jeremy Steele, and takes off on the open road to find a new life. Her first encounter is with a smooth pick-up artist played expertly by Alec Metro (who could have coined the decade-later term Metrosexual all by himself), luring her back to his hotel room, and stealing her car the next day.

Much of the sex action gives equal time to hubby Steele's escapades, in tandem with his best bud and bad influence Michael J. Cox. Happy ending for Liza turns out to be another pick-up, getting a lift from guest superstar Houston, for a happy ending, as they vanish into the distance down the open road at film's end.

Straight-forward and almost pure entertainment from the usually pretentious Kramski, "Lisa" still delivers 35mm film quality a decade after that format was scrap-heaped in favor of cheap video lensing, and is professionally shot through and through. It's evocation of the free spirit mentality of yesteryear remains refreshing two decades later.