40 ans, Captive du Désir

After helming a gang-bang feature titled "Climax", American filmmaker Kay Brandt makes her second movie for France's leading Marc Dorcel porn label in the mature woman genre, starring Cherie DeVille as a successful romance novelist.

She's presented as a workaholic, caught up in writing her latest tome, and neglecting her boyfriend (Will Pounder). As she writes sexy scenes for her fictional characters, we see them acted out on screen.

Gradually Cherie (character name: Kelly, but pen name as novelist: Pandora) imagines herself in scenes with her fictional creations, having sex with them (including a hot threesome with studs Ramon Nomar and Codey Steele) and arguing with them (beauties India Summer and Emily Willis complain to her that they have no names since she never assigned any to them as sex objects in the book).

Brandt's conceit about fantasy vs. reality is amusingly presented, and well-acted by DeVille and company, but the sex scenes run too long, making this a nearly 3-hour opus, as opposed to the usual under 2 hours in length Dorcel standard. Elsa Jean and Shyla Jennings deliver a quality lesbian scene, with Elsa supposedly Cherie's sister, though she too is just another fictional character "come to life". Emphasis on sexy black lingerie conforms to the Dorcel house style.