DVD Review: Viv Thomas’ “Unfaithful”

South African glamour photographer Viv Thomas produces lesbian erotica with a twist: He's a man! That does not stop him from revealing trenchant insights into the world of Budapest's lesbian elite in his film "Unfaithful". For example, Hungarian lesbians wear matching top and thong ensembles to bed.

Read our review of "Unfaithful" after the gap.
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Unfaithful

Director: Viv Thomas
Studio: Viv Thomas
Cast: Lisa (Cameron Cruise), Nelly, Peaches

Review by Gram Ponante

At first I was not aware that there were three women in this movie. I will explain why later.

Nelly (x) and Lisa (x + 9) are lovers, but Lisa tells her therapist that she isn't suited to Nelly's hard-partying ways, preferring instead to settle down and work on her career.

Cut to Nelly and Lisa making sweet morning tribadic love. Lisa gets up and sprays herself clean in the tub as Nelly watches. The scene underlines what Lisa said in therapy: Nelly loves Lisa more than Lisa loves Nelly.

Their love is characterized by loud kisses, fashionably distressed jeans, crisp flannel sheets, and significant gazing.

After several more scenes of similar to lesser bedroom intensity, all shot lovingly and with an eye for erring on the side of length, Lisa is again at the therapist's office, revealing that she has her eye on someone else: her therapist!

It was at this moment, as doctor and patient make sweet therapist's office love, that I thought that the therapist was in fact Nelly and that this was a game the two played. It was a twist worthy of Rupert Holmes and M. Night Shyamalan.

But I was wrong. Perhaps I am bad to think all lipstick lesbians look the same. The therapist was in fact Peaches and Lisa provoked her doctor into something that would probably get the latter's license revoked (but who knows how they do things in Hungary).

In any case, this was a beautifully shot film with a little dyke drama that will doubtless reinforce Tom Cruise's distrust of the psychiatric community.

· Viv Thomas (vivthomas.com)