L'été de mes 19 ans

Bodilis should stay forever in vacations because for one time, he did a good movie ! Sure he is greatly helped by the dynamic and kind Jade and her boyfriend but for one time, he has left the trafficking theme, the isolated mansion, the hooded pigs, the lingerie chic and toolbox and the message that sex is for an elite class for which women are just fleshy sex toys ! Here, it's about a summer love in Ibiza between two female friends who became a triangle. So it can speak to everyone, it's straight and natural. OK : the friend of the friend is an adult movies actor with a harem of girls (*) and a beautiful luminous villa but the movie is still interesting even if you skip that part ! Jade shows she can act and her incredible beauty as well !

(*): ... and a bunch of male friends as well: it's funny to see that as in some foreign cinema, this is always the same cast in every movie ! They keep changing their identities, their ties : however, unlike the former, this band (JPX, James Brossman, Ian Scott) stay ridiculously bad actors and worst, lacking of charisma, nobody can expect they can really be what they play !

THE SUMMER OF MY 19TH YEAR promises porn romance but delivers merely assembly line sex. The loveliness of the leading lady, portrayed by fresh face Jade Laroche, is all that kept me watching.

Marc Dorcel is known for his relatively lavish productions, but this one seems to have been a victim of the ongoing worldwide economic crisis. Instead of a superstar cast (Katsumi, etc.), glamorous settings and expensive-looking action scenes, all we get are some pretty girls on holiday in Ibiza, humped in a two-story villa or out by the pool.

Director Hervé Bodilis, who made the entertaining FRENCH CONNEXION, is really slacking this time, with a lengthy night sequence that is very poorly lit, grainy and has the sex in an ugly monochrome "night camera" green. What would constitute experimental cinema in another context is just ultra-cheap here.

Film, per Dorcel's usual mode, has dozens of language options, in both s'track and subtitles, but even when I opted for Frech track most of the French was merely in voice-over narration by the young heroine. The sex scenes had the cast basically speaking English in direct sound, though the English was limited to "F**k me!" and "Yes, yes!" gibberish.

Non-story has Jade and pal Sabrina frolicking with plenty of sex with big-dicked guys as well as each other. Lion's share of the humping is carried by busty blonde Tarra White, who demonstrates skill at anal sex and d.p.'s. A boring orgy and Jade's stand-up sex scene wearing only snazzy red shoes (Zalman King, here's a crappy video for you!) would be considered the "highlights".

My cheap thrill was noticing the resemblance between Jade and my fave Jennifer Connolly, circa JC's sexiest screen era, when she busted out in CAREER OPPORTUNITIES. It was fun to fantasize what she might have been like doing porn, courtesy of this trick casting.

Otherwise it's a tedious exercise that wasted a romantic sounding title on ephemeral XXX junk.