charlotte stokely and serene siren in “breakfast with my friend - part 1”

scene title: breakfast with my friend - part 1
performers: charlotte stokely, serene siren
site: sweetheart video (mile high)
production credits: ricky greenwood (dir.), sean aitch (ed.), maddy barton (scr.)
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l: charlotte stokely, r: serene siren

two sweetheart videos in a row about lesbian partners having the slightest ruffle in their domestic placidity, which leads, inevitably, to sex. but because this is the opening scene to the forthcoming dvd, we get a more extended introduction, with penny pax and sovereign syre as charlotte's childhood friends having brunch with the couple and awakening just the slightest touch of jealousy in serene. i can't express how great it is to see all these wonderful women in their thirties just playing women and not having to be forced into aged-up roles as stepmothers, teachers, or bosses.

specifically, this is the first time i've seen serene siren not playing an authority figure paired with a "teen." she and charlotte are the same age, and there's a level of comfort and reciprocal playfulness here that you don't get when one of them has to have some kind of power over the other. both charlotte and serene are masterful at communicating during sex, even using each other's character names, and using dialogue to make the preposterous positions required by porn almost romantic and believable.

they also, wonderfully, take their time getting into the sex, spending much of the foreplay fully clothed and revving each others' engines before jumping into the deep end (i mixed that metaphor on purpose). the dvd is going to be lesbian analingus #13, so there's a particular focus to the sex that doesn't do a whole lot for me personally, but their enjoyment certainly seems authentic, so it's great.

the filmmaking is again super classy and naturalistic, because it's ricky greenwood, but the limitations of his approach are becoming apparent after just two scenes. don't get me wrong, i like browns and golds, and i'm all in favor of subdued lighting that caresses the body over glare that washes it out, but i also like visual and tonal variety, and not everything should look like a particularly cozy holiday commercial. the editing is again super smooth, with only one caveat: the dialogue was mixed so low in the beginning with the opening music that i wasn't able to catch important bits of it.

finally, the script felt a bit awkward in the opening scene, partly because my lesbian-skepticism meter kept going off: are these conversations that real lesbians would have, or that men who want to masturbate to lesbians write for them? which in a way is a compliment: the closer porn gets to approximating actual life, the more nitpicky i feel about the gap that remains. heavily stylized scenes, the stuff of pure fantasy, don't have that problem.

performances: 26
cinematography: 23
editing: 18
script: 12
sjw points: 2

total score: 

81

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