Phone Sex

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Cast: Katia [Arabella Roussinova], Olivia de Trevill[e], Claudia [? Dora Venter], Monica Moore, Agness Grimaldi [? as Julia: NOT this one], Vivien Hadman [V Tolli].
Uncredited: an older woman [passenger in Leslie Taylor’s cab, below left].
Anita Rinaldi directs, and plays the talk-show co-host]:
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Arabella appears in her habitual long wig save for scene 5:
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I'm a big fan of Rinaldi's for all the pleasure she's given me in front of the camera. Behind it, things are not so wonderful. This effort was made after she'd already directed several films in the US and clearly shows several serious flaws possibly inherited over there [call it 'Vivid-itis', faute de mieux]. Anita seems to have watched a batch of Ninn/Adamo/MTV clips and tried to combine them: unfortunately she's picked the worst elements from all three- epilepsy-inducing jump-cuts, violent changes in contrast, soft-focus, framing through glass, etc. etc. A woman might perhaps find it erotic: I merely found it irritating. Better role-models for Anita would have been Suzy Randall and [although she started too late, alas, to save this one] Susi Medusa Gottardi.
On the plus side the lingerie [where used] is great, the make-up excellent, the videography [where uncompromised by the above flaws] crisp and the sex [when you can actually decipher what's going on] is enthusiastically-acted.
But why the conceit of condoms? None of this cast has had a problem performing au naturel prior to this and I noted enough opportunities for cross-infection in this flick to fill an entire ICU ward [for a full list, write to me at my Harley Street address]. There's nothing less erotic than watching a semi-erect cock clad no more than halfway-up in a shocking-pink, wrinkled rubber sliding listlessly in and out of the exterior three inches of a vagina...did all the cast's test-certificates suddenly become out-of-date five minutes before shooting began? If she wanted to make a meaningful 'statement' about HIV she could have donated her fee to an AIDS hospice. I've lost several friends to AIDS and they sure as Hell didn't catch it from the adult industry. Rant over.

There are several short linking episodes involving phone sex and Arabella pouting moodily for all she's worth, and repeatedly adjusting her wig [sorry, 'hair'].
1) Olivia and Arabella, turned-on by the phone-in, les; meanwhile cabbie Leslie Taylor, also listening to the programme, hurriedly dumps his passenger in order to jack off;
2) Arabella starts work with a phone-sex agency- 'head girl' Dora has anal sex with David Perry;
3) Monica Moore, in a rain-swept fantasy scene- b/g;
4) In the phone-sex office. Agness Grimaldi [headshot here- considering she takes the main [ahem] thrust of the sex in this scene, she is ill-served by those behind the camera: below are the best caps I could manage- DP,
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Vivienne Tolli [looking very good]- les and b-g/Arabella- les and b-g/Monica Moore- les;

5) Arabella and Olivia, both in sexy lingerie- les, followed by b/g for A and anal for Olivia;
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6) Arabella, after more phone-calls and pouting-and-sighing. Anal.