Genre:  Straight, Girl/Girl

Director: Michelle Flynn

Cast: Kenji, Lily Rei, Kara D, Chloe B, and Devon A

Length: 47:26

Date of Production: 2015

Extras:  None

Condoms: None

Audio/Video Quality: Full Screen, Digital online at AdultTime.com

OVERVIEW

Momentum, Volume 1 is the first in a 2015-inaugurated series from Australia's LightSouthern Films, a globally-respected and award-winning independent film studio. Director Michelle Flynn's homage to sun-kissed sex on Sydney's Bondi Beach in the 1970s works because of how it fits with its many creative inspirations. Plot-wise, the film is lightweight. However, the attention to detail in mirroring '70s B-movie aesthetics is significant. As well, overall, the content bearing a vibe similar to the turn of the 21st-century's, intentionally unrefined, and cheekily sexual mainstream indie cinema (think Alfonso Cuarón's 2002 film Y Tu Mama Tambien) is also noteworthy.

Scene 1: Lily Rei, Kara D, and Kenji

Fascinatingly enough, a film whose vibe lends itself less to being quick-and-easy jerk-off material and more to high-minded art-house entertainment begins with a masturbation scene. Lily Rei, Kara D, and Kenji are three pale Australian ladies headed to the beach for an afternoon of surf and fun. After some time in the water, the trio ducks away onto a towel amid weeds. Kara and Kenji stay clothed in their two-piece bikinis and proceed to make out, while Lily, still dressed in a nautical-themed bikini, is laid next to them, turned on, and furiously rubbing herself to orgasm. The scene itself is beautifully shot. Tight glimpses of classic cars, attention paid to seemingly benign details, picturesque vistas, again, so much of what films like say, Abigail Lesley is Back in Town are all about. It's an aesthetic that does well to define the appreciably well-worn tropes of space and place aiding this film's connection to the viewer.

Immediately following the triple-tryst in the sand, Kara D emerges as our insatiable nymphomaniac ingenue. We see Lily Rei and Kenji sitting despondently along the side of the highway, wondering where Kara disappeared after all three reached orgasm. We soon see her speeding along, where she encounters Devon A, who looks every bit of the hunky, post-hippie bearded stoner from every hazy vintage porn of our memories. He's posted on the side of the road in a red hatchback. Thus, this seemingly "random" sex that's about to occur was all part of a plan of which we, the viewer, are not aware. It's in these small touches where this film excels. The feeling that our perspective is from that of a scientific observer, and not an under-or-over-sexed home viewer, is certainly not novel. Instead, it, like many things in this film, is a recall to three or four other films that, as a viewer aware of the genre, you've seen and enjoyed.

Scene 2: Kara and Devon A

This scene is twice as long as the first and involves the first penetration shown on camera in the film. As well, it's the first time that we're introduced to just how hairy the 70s were. There's nothing neat and trimmed about either Kara or Devon. These are two shaggy-haired hippies having a carefree oceanside tryst. If this is in your heterosexual fantasy wheelhouse, the scene is sure to satiate all of your pleasure centers.

There's something about Devon's jiggling fingering and nibbling oral sex techniques that feel too true to form for men not performing in porn for even something as "come as you are" as this scene is presented. Momentum: Vol. 1 best succeeds when it is more "an epic, cinematic homage to sex, and less "raw, modern sexual epic." The oral sex foreplay that Kara gives Devon more than makes up for Devon's jarring performance. Devon staring on in bemused bliss is the type of thing of which video memes are made. It's a slice of joy that elevates the film as a whole.

Devon's extremely turgid cock-head as compared to his still-pale shaft is almost disconcerting here. Again, this scene works best if a thorough and intense sex session in a fanciful jalopy with character is on your list of idealized dream-sex. Hearing the entire car creaking during doggy-style, and girl-on-top missionary sex is a plus. If this same film were released in the '70s, there'd be something approximating Bread's "Make It With You" playing instead of the sound of the car's frame. Score one for modernity.

Scene 3: Kenji and Chloe B

We continue our mid-afternoon, oceanside sex-prowl by now seeing Kenji dropping off Kara at home, and then waiting for her roller-skate wearing friend Chloe to stop by. Seeing a buxom blonde holding an album in her hand, laying on the carpet in her den, as the pre-dusk sun is filtering into her den, just feels too perfect. It's every scene from every "Afterschool Special" about the pitfalls of some sort of devil-may-care teenage behavior. Here, it's a roll on the carpet between the two actresses. To the benefit of this scene, there's a lot of use of Chloe's height and how lithe and angular her physique is. Compare this to the softer, rounder-breasted Kenji, and the well-juxtaposed pairing excites.

Kenji fingering Chloe while her eyes radiate a level of wantonness heretofore unseen in the film is intense. Typically, both '70s cinema and the high-art fare of the early 2000s are informed by a sense that everyone watching this is too stoned to be utterly focused on sexual acts. The vibe of the environment in which the sex is occurring feels more meaningful. Ever wanted to see a dominant female sweatily choking her mate while finger-fucking her to a relaxing orgasm? Did you ever expect that you'd see this happen in a film scene where the wood-paneled walls were all that was missing to complete the set's look? Yes, the more grindhouse BDSM aspect again jars, but in everything else about the scene looking and feeling perfect for the governing aesthetics of the film, it works. Chloe and Kenji sweetly make out to end the scene.

FINAL THOUGHTS

If looking for a Beach Blanket Bingo-meets-stoner wanderlust flick to satisfy your dreamy carnal cravings, this is ideal. There's just enough of the aesthetics done right to meet them. However, it's when the film drops out of character, and things get altogether too real, it loses some of its luster. Momentum, Vol. 1 is still notable, though, and worth the excitement and entertainment.