With Come On One’s Face, There Can Be “No Hidden Truth”

It is a quarter 'til nine somewhere in Europe. A well-dressed man waits in a chair, languidly masturbating. A woman totters down the stairs and faces him, fondling herself, below the clock. This is the problem with Europe.

"No Hidden Truth" is yet another stylized and beautifully shot piece of erotica from Daring Media that nonetheless doesn't make a case for our wanting to sit and watch it.

Each scene features a beautiful woman going through vaguely vanilla motions with her solid but otherwise unenthusiastic partner in interesting lighting.

I'd like to think that "No Hidden Truth" means that there is no plot to this movie-which there isn't-but in that case I'd really like to see the sex without squinting.

More and more, artful but emotionless movies like this one make me think that the only people to buy them must be drug lords who need something playing in the background when holding tete a tetes with undercover cops in order to establish an atmosphere of disaffected menace.

"There is no hidden truth here, Mr. Johnson," the brooding kingpin would say. "Please make sure to close the door behind you when you leave, else my lynx might escape."

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