Riviera Heat 2
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Release date:
March 10, 2004 -
Runtime:
1h 27m -
Cast:
Claudio Meloni|Lucy Lee (II)|James Brossman|Jessica Fiorentino|George Uhl|Dora Venter|Steve Hooper|Edina|Frank Thring|Daniela (Czech)|Sarah O'Neal
Genre:
Straight
Director:
Frank Thring
Cast:
Lucy Lee, Dora Venter, Sara O'Neal, Claudio Clio, Edina Weisler, James Brossman, Claudio Meloni, George Uhl, Steve Hooper, Frank Thring
Length:
1hr 28 min
Production Date:
Hustler 2003
Extras:
Chapter Selection-With Act Selection, Behind the Scenes--an entertaining BTS filming of the orgy (from the first film) that has some pretty funny moments with Frank Thring and cast, Slide Show, Director's Profile, Trailers, Spam
Audio/Video:
The Audio is presented in the expected 2.0. There are no noticeable discrepencies, and although there is a typical music track, it does not overide the actor's voices or sounds.
The Video is of course in Full Frame. The colors are for the most well presented, although there is at times a reocurring brightness. Reds, particularly fleshtones, are excessive throughout. This is annoying, but nonetheless fairly expected.
Body of Review:
A quick flashback at the begining of the film tells us what happened in Riviera Heat 1. Tanya Star enlists a young man--who looks eerily like Woody Harrelson--to be in her films. When his girlfriend learns that the movies he is making are porn, she leaves him. He offers her a good ridance, because the lure of the industry is so great. In Riviera Heat 2, we pick up among his fame and fortune as he lives in the limelight, but always with the regret and loss of the girl he left behind.
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| Concluding Words: The women of Riviera Heat 2 are without a doubt very sexy. They may not be the most glamorous, young girls of film, they are good looking and pull a great deal off with the outfits and nice bodies. I'm not positively certain if the actors or the accents in the movie are truly French--this is the first I've heard of them--but they look European and the setting of the film is quite remarkable. I think what is best about this film is Frank Thring's direction. There are little to no quick cuts or long pans. Every shot seems to be done with care and with steadiness. While the women are decent the men are fairly attractive--so says my girlfriend, who was enthusiastic about this film. The naturalness of the women's bodies, the use of several different outfits and shoes and the multiple acts going on at once made this a plus movie for her. Too often, it seems, she gets tired when ten minutes is focused on a single act and the camera never moves. Thring did a good job of avoiding this, and because of her approval the film gets a Recommend instead of my initial rating of a Rent It. This might also be a good film for couples, as my Replay rating went up a notch when my own girlfriend expressed her liking of it. Hey if she's willing to watch it a second time, so am I.
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