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Castings 33: Victoria Review

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Studio: Private

Category:  Straight

Directed by: Pierre Woodman

Starring: Nikki Anderson, Andrew Youngman, Katja Kean, Alain Deloin, Edina, Brigitta, Mony, Christiane, Bob Terminator, Gabi Black

Released on: 8/23/2004

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Reviewed by Gabriel Nine  on  12/5/2004
Castings 33  
Private

From Paris to Budapest and on to Thailand and Kenya, Pierre Woodman takes us on another trip in search of top talent. As always, the roughly-shot casting interviews are backed up with coverage of photo shoots and sex scenes from Private productions as the girls make their first big steps in this wonderful world of porn…

Christiane De Nerville
Christiane, AKA Julia Swen or Nannes Beaumont, is a long legged blonde with a notable sparkle in her eye. She does rather appeal to me even if she isn't an absolute classical beauty. Maybe it's her forthright but pleasant manner, her good English and her honest appraisal of the magazines she has to peruse to get an idea of Pierre's work. She's initially only interested in nude shots, and agrees to strip first - great slim, tan body - and talk later.

Christiane seems to reckon the hard stuff is outwith her morality, or words to that effect, and has only had one boyfriend with who she's recently split. It's therefore quite a jump to reconcile to then see her in the example scene used here, and in plenty others, seemingly getting off on some pretty strong sex. Unfortunately, the scene chosen to represent her talents is one of Pierre's cringe-inducing attempts at a fetish scenario. In this, Christiane plays a dominatrix overseeing two brunettes and a hooded guy, all suitably attired, in action that includes oral, anal and some big dildos into tight bums. The worst aspect is her running commentary on the whole thing in a voice that quickly becomes grating and is only silenced when she squeezes that sizeable toy into her ass, all moral objections a distant memory.
Interview: Budapest, June 2000. Sex scene: Superfuckers 11

Nathalie
This petite Franco-Asian brunette is another who finds Pierre's dirty mags disgusting, and it takes some amount of talking by Mr Woodman to get her to divest herself of her clothing. In the intervening minutes, Pierre lays on the psychological angle with a heavy hand, much of it debatable in the extreme. He claims these pictures will not be shown in public (you can see his nose extending by the camera as he says it) and that he only shoots these tapes so there's a record of girls understanding what's involved and agreeing to it, so they can't turn around at a later date and say "he made me do it". Frankly, it's almost incidental that she has quite a neat little figure when she finally, shyly, strips off after much persuasion.

So, given that it took so much to even get her bra off, it might theoretically be surprising to see her dolled up in white lingerie and stockings taking part in a DP with Akim and David Perry. But as we know by now, it's no surprise at all. Perry is but a callow youth here and takes advantage to shag her a little harder than really is necessary when merely posing for stills. The guys come over her face and fluffy hair, which she looks positively thrilled about
Interview: Paris, March 1993. Photoshoot: Private 120

Brigita
A trim-figured PE student with a "youthful" complexion (don't you mean spotty - plain talkin' editor), Brigita supplies more mixed reactions for Pierre to deal with. Her smiling face as she intenely peruses the magazines says "yes", and then she turns round and proclaims them disgusting. Right. There's a big cut for off-screen "chat", which always annoys me as so often we get the impression that the truly key moments happen away from the camera. Her answers to the usual rude questions are largely predictable, to the extent that Pierre is completing her responses before she's even finished. They move on to the usual strip, which reveals the collars and cuffs don't match - her hair is blonde but she's really a redhead. Still, her body is fit and her sparkling eyes and sweet smile are most alluring.

On to a scene from Fatal Orchid, one that Private have already had some mileage out of in previous compilations. This pleasingly pervy little scenario has Katja Kean blindfolded by Andrew Youngman as she enters into a group scene along with Brigita and Anastasia (AKA Bolivia Samsonite). The latter pair use odd little metal toys on themselves and then on Katja. There's some very mild girl-girl action and some anal for Katja and while I can't deny it's all quite stilted, it looks pretty good and the girls do all wear superb stockings. It isn't the best scene to show off Brigita, in all honesty, but then looking at her profile there appears to have been little choice.
Interview: Budapest, September 1997. Sex scene: Fatal Orchid

Victoria
Victoria is a slim brunette of 20 years of age; she's pretty but looks a touch nervous as she's confronted with Pierre's double assault of dirty magazines and indiscreet questioning. Still, her face lights up revealingly when she's asked about getting sperm in her mouth - naughty girl! Her attitude is pleasant and she's ready to strip out of her low-cut white outfit to show off her body - slim, but with agreeably full boobs. There's a mildly diverting if quite routine scene from Sweet Baby 2 - that's what it was called, why change it - where Victoria teams up with pixie-like blond Alexandra to take on Philippe Soine in a colourful pool-side setting. There's oral, a little girl-girl play, straight sex and some anal for Victoria, who appears to endure rather than enjoy it. Then Philippe jerks off onto their tongues and the girls smile sweetly in time-honoured fashion.
Interview: Budapest, July 1996. Sex scene: Sweet Baby 2

Gina
Giving her name as "Anita", Gina is a really attractive tall, slim girl with reddish brown hair who, after another relatively straightforward interview, really comes into her own in a photo shoot scene where I think she looks really amazing. In the interview - her English is far better than Pierre's - she reveals a dislike of anal but lo and behold, here she is in anal and DP action, albeit posed for stills, and looking just great doing it. There's a really erotic little cameo moment where Richard Lengin, one of her co-stars, runs his hands over her smooth, blemish free skin and for just one fleeting second one can almost share the sensation he must be experiencing there.

Pierre brings us back to reality with a bump with a nonetheless enjoyable look at the shooting of a scene for Pyramid 3. Now with red-blonde hair, and looking like another Anita, Gina shares some light-hearted moments with co-star Nikki Anderson before getting down to the serious business of an anal scene with Akim in this absolutely ghastly Egyptian style set, all under Pierre's verbose direction.
Interview: Paris, February 1996. Photoshoot: Pirate 41. Sex scene (backstage): Pyramid 3

Mony
Perhaps attempting to avoid being just another Monika, Mony is a tan blonde with a tousled blonde mane. Taking a good look at the magazines, she gives us the chance to note her natural beauty and, as Pierre puts it, "a certain shine in her eye". Her candid revelations of a fairly extensive sexual experience even at the age of 18 cause Pierre to blurt out some pretty choice comments, but for me it's the look in her wide eyes when she reveals she likes to be submissive that really does it. She seems fun and genuine too - I think she's fabulous.

There's some amusing backstage coverage of a trip to Kenya where the in-flight hijinks don't go down at all well with Tania Russof, Mrs Woodman to you, squire. After a few location shots we finally get to see Mony in action and unfortunately the examples chosen are hardly prime material. There's coverage of a photo shoot and a cursory glance at a scene from Sex Therapy before a full sex scene taken at the same time as the preceding photo shoot. With Deloin and Terminator supplying the dicks, sparks do not fly though seeing Mony swishing her blonde locks around in this sun drenched spot, in the jungle by deep blue seas, at least prompts some pleasant thoughts. One can dream…
Interview: October 1998. Photoshoot: Sex 23. Sex scene (backstage): Sex Therapy. Sex scene: Private XXX 2

Anette
Now I always reckoned that well built, dark-haired Anette, AKA Black Diamond, looked like a bit of a handful. Sure enough, this interview is something of a struggle but mainly due to linguistic shortcomings. For example, Pierre asks if she knows his business. She says no. Frustrated, he comments that he didn't pay her plane ticket to Paris just for a holiday. "Porno!" she says, finally realising what he's on about. It seems she wants to be a porn star, but having only been with one boy in her life, this could prove problematic.

And so the interview proceeds in a frequently garbled mix of French, English and Magyar, from both parties, the highlight really being the way her face goes from a frown to a smile and back. Delightful. Somehow Pierre gets her to admit to being a masochist, though one can only wonder if she really knows what that means. Finally, it's kit off time and while Pierre may take the piss out of her shoes, he can't deny that her super, tanned body, super tits and long dark hair combine to make her look naturally gorgeous - as good as she does in any movie I've seen, in fact.

Moving swiftly past an unfortunate occurrence during the strip and pose part of the interview, let's conclude by picking over the main dish of the day, the sex initiation. Starting with the usual relaxing cunnilingus, Pierre quickly has Anette reacting quite vociferously to his attentions, and she continues to do so in response to some fairly stern treatment, as Pierre slaps her face and tits, pulls her hair and shags her very firmly indeed. No doubt people may object to this as always, but her body language never hints at any reluctance - indeed, check out the enthusiasm with which she sucks him off at the end - and with her tits quivering deliciously as she rides on top, I for one have no qualms about enjoying the show. The strange thing is that it's once he's really pounding her ass that she's most responsive, which is odd as she often avoids anal sex in other scenes. Did Pierre put her off, or does no-one else measure up?
Interview and initiation: Paris, November 2001

Beatrix
While dark-haired student Beatrix is undeniably attractive, it's pretty evident that it will take some work to convince her. The signs aren't good when Pierre says to his translator that he wants Beatrix to strip off first, as he's worried about what she'll think. She seems only interested in doing soft-core shots and sure enough the hard-core magazines prove just too hard. Pierre gets the translator to show her a photo-journal with some images of real-life violence to accompany his comparison of the supposedly disgusting pornography with the way people idly consume violent images on the nightly news along with their evening meal. There's just no convincing her. It's disgusting and that's that.
Interview: Budapest, April 1999

Conclusion
Without having quite as many well-known names or faces as some editions, Castings 33 perhaps lacks a little in terms of broader appeal for those beyond the hardcore of series devotees with the choice of sex scenes and photo shoots being quite mediocre at times. Nonetheless, there are a few revealing moments, rare as they are, that do provide more than a little interest and some genuinely delightful girls with whom I had only the faintest of familiarity - Mony and Gina especially - and so there's plenty to keep me hooked, with the sex initiation being just about the best scene I've witnessed featuring Anette.

DVD Comments
The picture quality of the interviews is, due to their nature, basic at best, poor in the case of the Nathalie casting, and the sound is simply functional. Three audio languages (French, German, English) are supplemented by several more subtitle sets. There's a fairly standard selection of extra features, from photos to production notes and trailers, plus the usual Private DVD-Rom section with more promotional material.

 
Director
Pierre Woodman
 
Cast
Victoria, Christiane, Nathalie, Anette, Brigita, Mony, Gina, Beatrix
 
Running Time
2hrs 31mins
 
Video
NTSC / All regions
 
Audio
Dolby 2.0 / Original sound with multi-language options
 
Disc Features
Subtitles. photos, cast profiles, production notes, trailers


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