Rocco's Way To Love Review

Reviewed by Speelie  on  6/27/2001

Released on DVD and VHS 5/01. Directed by Rocco Siffredi and Gabriel Zero, story by Gabriel Zero
Cast: Kelly Stafford, Katherine Count, Amanda Warren, Aneta Curtis, Sabine Mallory (aka Sabina), Veronica White, Lucie Viastilova (aka Vanessa), Anushka, Ruth Farah, Mary Foster, Iveta, Rocco, Nacho Vidal, Long Dark, Nboma Lobe, Peter Checo, Anthony Britt, Max Cortes, Toy deSergio

Rocco doesn't get enough credit for the strides he has made in his film making (and I should add, everything he does is a collaboration with Gabriel Zero). His earlier work mainly consisted of guys getting their rocks off, with the women present merely to provide an orifice or three and some visual stimulation. A boys' club atmosphere prevailed, and some club members continue to crank out such movies on their own, Jean Yves LeCastel being a prime example. These have their place, they meet a need in their male audience for hard yet undemanding action.

Sometimes Rocco found a performer who wanted to push her limits. I haven't seen any of his Sandy releases, but I think she fit the bill. But mostly, it was selfish guys fucking bewildered PYTs from Eastern Europe. That has gradually changed, so that for the past couple of years the focus has been more on men and women both pushing each other as far as possible sexually, and with everyone finding enjoyment. One reason was that Rocco at last found another male to match his intensity, Nacho Vidal, and more than a few women willing to test themselves against the studs.

The most famous, almost notorious, of these women is Brit Kelly Stafford, a slender, buxom young blonde who gets off on degrading herself. She is different from the confused and overwhelmed girls whose heads Rocco swirled in toilets to make up for their lack of passion (since the scenes would have been boring otherwise). Those girls GOT degraded, but Kelly has shown in the movies that include her name that she is in charge of degrading HERSELF. I have found some of her antics almost unwatchable, so I approached this release with skepticism.

That was unwarranted, Kelly only has a small role, though she is the star. She is dead before this begins, strangled and left in the ocean. The French police are questioning Rocco and Gabriel, since they were the last to be seen with her. A sad story emerges, but that story is well into the background, with intense sex the true focus.

We cut away to Prague, and the upper floor apartment seen in Rocco Ravishes Prague 3 (for a scene shot at about the same time). Ravishing raven haired Katherine Count haughtily enters and begins bossing around everyone in Czech. She's tall and imperious, and looks even better than in her intense scene in Rocco: Animal Trainer 4 (review coming soon). Nacho eyes her across the room, but stays out of her way. Katherine only lightens up when her friend, tall pretty blonde Aneta arrives. Katherine opens an armoir, to show off her slave, a pale women with a tight body, whose face isn't shown. She's dressed only in black stockings, until Katherine puts a bondage mask over her head. The slave is then lead to Rocco, who is sitting on a toilet, and she proceeds to eat his ass and deepthroat him, to the point that she gags.

Aneta begins to fellate two other guys who were hanging around, while Katherine deepthroats Nacho and gags a bit too. Eventually, Katherine is on her knees getting one of the longest, hardest anal poundings ever captured on film from Nacho (this is on a par with her coupling with Rocco in Animal Trainer 4). The slave is on hand to do ass to mouth, and take a blast from Nacho. Rocco has been on a stool watching, and anals Katherine with his foot, with the slave periodically sucking on his toes.

Now the two women turn their attention to Rocco, and soon Katherine is getting another anal pounding in standing doggy. She and Rocco are rough with each other, loving what they are doing. The slave provides additional ass to mouth, then it is her turn to ride Rocco in anal reverse cowgirl. At last the mask comes off, and we see that she is Amanda, a very athletic Czech girl who is frequently submissive and masochistic in various Rocco and Christophe Clarke films (and is great with Nacho in Joey Silvera's Please #9, which is, sadly, far from any DVD release). Amanda was with Rocco and Katherine in Animal Trainer 4, so it was no surprise that she is here too, taking rough treatment in a fabulous double scene.

Black and white footage shows a time in the past, as Kelly and Gabriel Zero talk on a beach. He asks her, "why are you like this?" She refuses to take any sort of blame, and insists she acts as she wants to, and that it is her "sad way to love."

Now Rocco is walking into an apartment, desperately searching for the rest room, to relieve his bladder. Pretty, shy, innocent looking Ruth is in the kitchen. She's the only woman in this movie who is not a seasoned veteran (at least AFAIK). Rocco quickly has her strip, and lie on the floor, and he then pisses all over her (just the before and after are shown in this USA version). He then anals her with his foot, before engaging in doggy vaginal sex, and he leaves her looking a bit traumatized.

In the living room, Mary (who looks Eastern European, but speaks with a British accent) blows her boyfriend Anthony. Slender, tough, short platinum haired Anushka arrives, with Nboma Lobe (a black guy in European porn who isn't Franco Roccaforte? Unbelievable!). Ruth sucks off Nboma, and then has extended vaginal sex, looking thrilled to be with a black man (and also, presumably, that she doesn't have to do anal). This is the side show, the main course invlolves Anthony fucking Mary, and then having intense doggy anal sex with Anushka, who loves every moment. But, she insists after a while, now it is the girls' turn. She breaks out a dildo, and the two women use it to fuck Anthony up the butt, something he enjoys very much.

Back at the police interrogation, Rocco recalls Kelly reading DeSade, and discussing him with Gabriel Zero. Kelly insists that when DeSade killed his young lover, he acted out of love, his way to love, which is also her way to love.

Sabina, here called Sabine, was almost unbearably hot and sexual in Rocco Ravishes Prague 3. Here she is reteamed with two others from that movie, pale black haired Iveta and pretty brunette Lucie (who was Vanessa in RRP3). First, she and Rocco argue and make up by being rough to Veronica. "She's born to be a slave," Sabine comments about the slightly plump, pale skinned Veronica, and Veronica lives up to that comment, taking hard anal prodding and fucking from the other two.

Then Sabine and Rocco move to the bathroom, trussed up Iveta is anally riding a dildo ball. Lucie comes in with a dildo face mask, and is soon on her knees taking an anal pounding to rival what she did in RRP3. Sabine is busy dominating Iveta with various anal toys, and then Rocco takes over. In the end, he briefly fucks Sabine in a loving vaginal missionary, before he at last climaxes. He held out better than I suspect many viewers will.

Back at the station, the police don't know what to make of this tale. "Kelly was never a woman..." Rocco states, meaning not a typical women. We then see her at night, chained to the gate of an estate. Rocco frees her, and she runs onto the ground, where she engages in one of her favorite activities. As in most Kelly movies, she sucks off a whole gang of strangers, letting them all cum on her face. One of the gang is a woman, and she holds her camel toe in Kelly's face, and pees all over it (again, not shown).

Then, Kelly and Rocco are in a hut for another of their marathon workout sessions, and he fucks her pussy and ass as hard as humanly possible, while she urges him to greater intensity. He gives her the choking and slapping that always gets her off, and they only puase for a moment, when she briefly fears he has accidentally broken her nose. This is unfounded, and the action resumes. Kelly shows us a spot where her juices have left a decent puddle, to prove she's into it. Finally, she asks Rocco, "Would you kill me, if I said 'please'?"

Then the movie ends with a bit at the police station. If you haven't guessed how she died, it is revealed. Safe to say, I'm not really giving anything away when I say that on some level, this is Gabriel Zero's movie. He has shot hour of hour of Rocco with Kelly, and no doubt often wonders what makes her tick.

Aside from Ruth, these are all performers who don't merely like sex. We are left convinced that they all NEED this incredibly rough, tough consentual fucking. No one is bored, no one goes through the motions, and the result is enough to make 95%+ of the competition seem bland.

People who are used to the typical lame Vivicked product might end up running screaming from the room if they watch this without any warning. Even hardened raincoaters may find it distirbing, because it is not objects in action, it is real people exposing their sexuality on film. It makes a person think. I don't expect many women to enjoy it, but they would do well to watch it once, to learn a bit about the tiger we men have somewhere in our soul, even if the alleycat is all we usually show.

The DVD includes a bit of bonus footage which of Rocco with Katherine and Sabine, and is as good as what was left in (it must have been cut solely for VHS length demands). The photo gallery is good, and the usual Evil Angel Fetish Menus and website lists are present. The Filmography of performances seems to not run properly, but I remain unsure. What isn't in doubt is that Rocco captured his way to love definitively, in one of his best movies ever.