With its
very loose thread of a story, Succulence barely manages to merit a "feature"
tag, not that it really matters much. Essentially, it's about a handful
of mildly decadent goings on around a group of photographers and models
in Budapest. It may not be an original premise, but it holds the promise
of rude action with gorgeous girls, so it can't be all bad.
Moonlight and Nikita
Money seems to have changed hands just before the opening shot begins,
showing James getting permission to worship the tanned legs and feet of
a masked blonde, later revealed to be Moonlight. Carlos is getting intimate
with another blonde, Nikita, who wears a little skirt and top and Anastacia
style specs. They quickly get into the sex, James spooning with Moonlight
too, as clothes disappear at a rate of knots, and everyone goes at it
with some energy if not a lot of charisma. There's plenty of noise, though
I have to note that it's not all from the girls - background noise is
made especially evident around every clumsy edit.
But let's talk girls: Nikita is skinnier, still nicely built, and she
offers up her ass as the guys swap partners. Carlos takes the curvier
Moonlight in doggy, and it begins to look like she's had a boob-job -
all busty, blonde and tan, she looks like German ex-star Gina Wild. The
sex continues at a fast pace, soon taking a turn for the anal. Both girls
are soundly fucked in the ass, some particularly robust sodomy goes Moonlight's
way, and there are a few nice facial expressions from pretty Nikita. James
comes in a champagne glass and Nikita decadently drinks the cocktail.
Moonlight can't wait, trying to get a taste at source, and she displays
a little less class when dispatching the mixed drink. Novelty come shots
aside, this is an energetic scene, performed with an undeniable athleticism
but also with an odd lack of real warmth.
Lady D / Margaret and Jasmin
An imperious blonde admires herself in a hotel room mirror, donning a
studded necklace. Looking sexy and chic in a black dress, hair pinned
up, high heels on, Lady D, perhaps better known as Diana
or Diane, and previously a brunette ("Lady D" puts me in
mind of the idiot boy character in Amelie who's obsessed with the real
"Lady Di", as he calls her) kisses her brunette girlfriend Margaret, and
heads off down the street where she happens upon photographer Franco.
He's keen for her to try out for some photos - you know what he's after
- and back at his studio he hilariously attempts to maintain an image
of propriety despite the sounds of sex emanating from another room.
So, Lady D is talked into posing for Franco and his assistant Carlos,
and this soon takes a turn for the rude. This scene is interspersed with
Margaret spotting a newspaper ad and going off for her own modelling job
- a two girl affair that turns into a really tepid lesbian scene, and
despite James' attempts to inject some more oomph into proceedings, it
continues in insipid fashion to a come shooting conclusion. Jasmin is
the other girl in the scene, a tanned and trim girl in contrast to Margaret's
pale curves. It's most notable for Margaret's outstanding, or perhaps
upstanding, tits, about which Patrick Collins comments during "Behind
the Scenes" as being hard to believe as a natural pair - but they are
apparently natural.
This scene, with its underwhelming use of two very pretty girls, is spliced
together with Lady D's scene, and serves as mere interruption and annoyance
in the much more raw and exciting sex, with Lady D showing how much more
of a natural sex performer she's become. Franco's professional conduct
is out the window as he licks her ass and just about sucks her face off
with some overwhelming kisses. Lady D responds with a succulent BJ while
Carlos busies himself licking her pussy and ass.
Lady D rides Franco reverse cowgirl, her long, fishnet stocking clad legs
akimbo, panties pulled aside. She sucks Carlos and gets into further gymnastic
positions with Franco. She virtually has her legs behind her head, facilitating
some rather rude shots of the penetration. Carlos also gets to fuck her
before they later fuck her ass and Franco instructs her to "Clean your
ca-ca!" as the panting Lady D blows him, straight from her ass. There's
a DP or two, too, and in a doggy position this really shows off her body
shape and long legs nicely.
After the intrusion of the Margaret & Jasmin scene finale, there's more
DP with Lady D and Franco ends up dropping a thick load of come on her
face. Carlos continues the anal, before Lady D drops down, quick smart,
and takes his come on her face too. I suppose Lady D's side of things
would have been a reasonable scene on its own, but I find the repeated
cutaways to the lesser encounter an unwarranted distraction.
Lady D & Margaret
Upon her return to the hotel room, Lady D seems to take umbrage at Margaret's
little excursion, and next thing you know, Margaret is nude, blindfold
and kneeling at Lady D's feet. She's in a white dress and black whale
net stockings, and beckons in Carlos and Franco. Carlos gets into some
pussy eating with Lady D, while Franco lewdly uses Margaret's mouth and
has her suck pussy and cock together. With her small tits exposed, Lady
D sucks Carlos as Franco fucks her, before he takes Margaret away and
has her ride his dick. Carlos takes long, lean Lady D in doggy, which
features some fetishistic coverage of her heels and stockings.
This is all quite pleasant, with Margaret variously being manhandled into
acrobatic positions, her pale plump rump a visual treat, not to mention
those knockout tits. Carlos and Lady D enjoy anal sex, in reverse cowgirl,
blindfolded Margaret stealing a naughty nibble on a nipple. Franco also
gets to fuck Lady D's inviting anus, in doggy. Tit shaking sex with Margaret
sets Carlos off and he douses her face in semen. Franco then drops another
thick wad on Margaret's face and the girls tongue-flick and lick together.
This is another sweaty, energetic scene and having Margaret keep the blindfold
on throughout is a nice touch, but I don't know. I just feel there's a
certain lack of personality that prevents me awarding more fulsome praise.
Lady D and Margaret - II
Budapest by night has its historic buildings lit up, and against this
splendid backdrop Margaret steps out to find two grubby winos. The vixen
proceeds to open her coat and flash her tits at the rancid tramps (Nick
Lang and Leslie Taylor) and the upshot is that the lucky pair find themselves
in the girls' room, lapping their wine from Lady D's tits rather than
from the bottle in its typical paper bag. The scene endeavours to play
up the contrast between the exquisitely dressed blonde and her grotty
playmates (who have all kinds of sores painstakingly painted on their
groins, as seen in the Behind the Scenes) but I am not sure the attempt
to have Margaret bossing her girlfriend to suck the "smelly" cocks actually
works out so well. The light in the room isn't the best and the winos
"filth" isn't obvious enough, so in short it just seems like Lady D is
only marginally more reticent than usual to suck their dicks.
Margaret, in a boyish cap, big hoop earrings and little else, joins in
the oral sex, as Lady D excitedly works over the cocks with her mouth.
Leslie gets between Lady D's whalenet clad thighs and laps twat, while
Nick's already into Margaret in doggy. With her panties pulled to the
side, Lady D rides reverse cowgirl on Leslie as the scene quickly builds
up a head of steam, threatening but never really blowing its top. Leslie
gets hot with Margaret, while there's a sense of déjà vu about the shots
of Lady D riding reverse cowgirl, this time on Nick. So, lots of energy
but really not so much chemistry and the initial premise of fucking some
filthy geezers seems forgotten in what turns into a regular porno encounter.
Leslie finishes off by whacking off over Margaret's face ad then Nick
pulls out of Lady D's twat to do likewise. The girls indulge in some tongue-flicking
to bring it all to a close.
Overall
I am really unsure what to make of Succulence. There are some ideas that
I like; the girls are great (even if I am not totally into seeing the
same two girls in most of the scenes, no matter how pretty they are) but
the sex, while lively, feels impersonal. The girls' attractive outfits,
make-up and hairstyling, combined with and contrasted by some of the debauched
sexual situations perhaps suggest Patrick Collins is going for a feeling
of stylish decadence with this movie. I don't think it really achieves
that, as it lacks a real sense of style, possibly due to the proficient,
functional but hardly artistic camerawork and pretty standard Budapest
locations. Maybe I am being unfair with these criticisms, but while I
think this movie wants to be stylish, it just looks plain.
Even if it isn't really so, Succulence somehow feels like a rather
rushed production, and I mean that in terms of the staging of the movie
as well as the rather truncated running time. The latter does make for
a fast moving film but I'd like to have seen more time spent lingering
on the attractive girls and trying to develop a little more of the old
je ne sais quoi during the sex. Being strictly honest, I must say
there's no reason to try this average movie when Christoph Clark is so
reliably providing such substantial coverage of European beauties, and
in a colourful, vibrant fashion too. While it tries to add a little more
drama to the mix than Clark's work, ultimately Succulence is but a pale
shadow, I am sorry to say.
DVD Comments
I thought Elegant Angel were supposed to have got the hang of this DVD
thing, but while the menus are well done, the picture quality on the movie
itself is not quite up to scratch. I actually wondered if this was an
old movie, looking at the weak colour in the opening sequence, and this
is the case throughout. It's not the worst, but I am surprised. The sound
is also slightly dodgy, with a lot of background noise at times and as
I noted earlier, this is really made apparent around the edits as one
shot abruptly splutters into another. DVD extras are not too bad at all,
though. Besides the usual trailers and so forth, there's a 21-minute extra
scene (Kathy Heart from Teen Angel) and an enjoyable 23-minute Behind
the Scenes short. This heavily features a cute make-up artist called Henrietta
who is annoyingly familiar but impossible to place. Her artistry in making
the winos look genuinely repellent deserved more than the scant attention
it gets in the final movie. There's shower-room fun and more besides.
You can also see how Patrick Collins directs this movie more like a traditional
director, rather than shooting it on the fly.
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