alana cruise and ella knox in “women seeking women #152”
scene title: women seeking women #152 [scene 1]
performers: alana cruise, ella knox
site: girlfriends films
production credits: b. skow (dir.)
trailer
another girlfriends movie with proper color grading! whatever is the world coming to.
it remains just as stupid and unconvincing as any girlfriends release, but opening with ella knox and jenna foxx getting ready for a company party is kind of nice: they may both be relatively light-skinned, but they are women of color, and that's not really been an element of girlfriends' brand in recent years. (two decades of shitty, dingy lighting will do that. so will the fundamental racism of the core girl/girl audience.) the party, hosted by bosses alana cruise and ryan keely, is transparently an effort to get the younger women into bed, a reveal which would be funny if the script weren't so weird and artificial and the pacing so interminable: girlfriends scenes would be enormously improved if they were played at 1.5x speed.
anyway, once alana drags ella away to taste-test a new honey product, the scene stops being even as awkwardly entertaining as it was when jenna and ryan's flair for light comedy was in the mix: alana is a relatively undemonstrative actress, and ella is game but still amateurish. (this was originally released on dvd in may 2018, when she was only a few months into the industry. she's improved since.) the transition into sex is entirely dumb and artificial, but the actual sex isn't bad, only incompetently shot as per usual. they certainly seem to be enjoying themselves.
i can't rehearse the sins of girlfriends every time they come up: they're the second-most prolific brand in girl/girl, so they'll come up every couple of days. we'll just take it as read that, apart from the professional color grading and a surprisingly contemporary, eye-catching set, the cinematography is for shit and the editing is minimally competent: i caught that incidental music during scene transitions, and am glad that someone involved in the process knew they were trying to make a comedy. if only everyone else was on the same page.
performances: 20
cinematography: 16
editing: 12
script: 7
sjw points: 4
total score:
performers: alana cruise, ella knox
site: girlfriends films
production credits: b. skow (dir.)
trailer
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| l: ella knox, r: alana cruise |
another girlfriends movie with proper color grading! whatever is the world coming to.
it remains just as stupid and unconvincing as any girlfriends release, but opening with ella knox and jenna foxx getting ready for a company party is kind of nice: they may both be relatively light-skinned, but they are women of color, and that's not really been an element of girlfriends' brand in recent years. (two decades of shitty, dingy lighting will do that. so will the fundamental racism of the core girl/girl audience.) the party, hosted by bosses alana cruise and ryan keely, is transparently an effort to get the younger women into bed, a reveal which would be funny if the script weren't so weird and artificial and the pacing so interminable: girlfriends scenes would be enormously improved if they were played at 1.5x speed.
anyway, once alana drags ella away to taste-test a new honey product, the scene stops being even as awkwardly entertaining as it was when jenna and ryan's flair for light comedy was in the mix: alana is a relatively undemonstrative actress, and ella is game but still amateurish. (this was originally released on dvd in may 2018, when she was only a few months into the industry. she's improved since.) the transition into sex is entirely dumb and artificial, but the actual sex isn't bad, only incompetently shot as per usual. they certainly seem to be enjoying themselves.
i can't rehearse the sins of girlfriends every time they come up: they're the second-most prolific brand in girl/girl, so they'll come up every couple of days. we'll just take it as read that, apart from the professional color grading and a surprisingly contemporary, eye-catching set, the cinematography is for shit and the editing is minimally competent: i caught that incidental music during scene transitions, and am glad that someone involved in the process knew they were trying to make a comedy. if only everyone else was on the same page.
performances: 20
cinematography: 16
editing: 12
script: 7
sjw points: 4
total score:
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