eva long and carolina sweets in “women seeking women #152”
scene title: women seeking women #152 [scene 3]
performers: eva long, carolina sweets
site: girlfriends films
production credits: b. skow (dir.)
trailer
the thing about this project i most dread doing is watching girlfriends scenes. it's not just that they're poorly-made; it's that they're poorly-made and interminable. performers who are vividly engaging in other productions are flat and dull in girlfriends scenes; premises with some interesting ideas are presented in the most tedious, uninvolving way possible.
this scene, which kicks off the second half of women seeking women #152 (and has nothing to do with the previous two scenes) has a decent campy premise: serene siren and eva long as rapacious older women hungrily eyeing the young college student carolina sweets who's moving in next door. but it's presented with a total absence of camp (though serene tries hard): in order to pretend that they need carolina's services as a maid, they make a "mess" of their kitchen. wacky comedy, right? no, this is girlfriends, who never edits and just films everything in long pokey takes. so it's just two women trying to make pouring macaroni on a kitchen counter look amusing.
the whole rest of the scene is like that: potentially interesting concepts that fall flat when filmed. only one sequence actually works: once eva (who has called dibs) gets carolina alone in the master bathroom, having cajoled her out of her clothes in the most unconvincing way possible, she gives her a reacharound while staring into the mirror, even grabbing her chin and forcing her to watch. i have to imagine that was eva's improvisation, which only happened to be well-filmed: once it's over, they move to a bed for sex and the filmmaking is again tedious and uninvolving, and carolina forgets that she's supposed to be an innocent who has never been with a woman, jumping head-first into porn positions without hesitation.
b. skow, the long-serving gonzo director, also directed this "movie" (i only confirmed it with this entry), which explains why the previous scenes were in 2000s-era porn locations rather than the horrible 80s-soap locations that girlfriends has traditionally filmed in, as well as why the color grading is closer to network television than public access. it's still dull as hell, only better than what i'm starting to recognize as dan o'connell's signature style by a thin margin.
performances: 20
cinematography: 18
editing: 9
script: 6
sjw points: 2
total score:
performers: eva long, carolina sweets
site: girlfriends films
production credits: b. skow (dir.)
trailer
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| l: eva long, r: carolina sweets |
the thing about this project i most dread doing is watching girlfriends scenes. it's not just that they're poorly-made; it's that they're poorly-made and interminable. performers who are vividly engaging in other productions are flat and dull in girlfriends scenes; premises with some interesting ideas are presented in the most tedious, uninvolving way possible.
this scene, which kicks off the second half of women seeking women #152 (and has nothing to do with the previous two scenes) has a decent campy premise: serene siren and eva long as rapacious older women hungrily eyeing the young college student carolina sweets who's moving in next door. but it's presented with a total absence of camp (though serene tries hard): in order to pretend that they need carolina's services as a maid, they make a "mess" of their kitchen. wacky comedy, right? no, this is girlfriends, who never edits and just films everything in long pokey takes. so it's just two women trying to make pouring macaroni on a kitchen counter look amusing.
the whole rest of the scene is like that: potentially interesting concepts that fall flat when filmed. only one sequence actually works: once eva (who has called dibs) gets carolina alone in the master bathroom, having cajoled her out of her clothes in the most unconvincing way possible, she gives her a reacharound while staring into the mirror, even grabbing her chin and forcing her to watch. i have to imagine that was eva's improvisation, which only happened to be well-filmed: once it's over, they move to a bed for sex and the filmmaking is again tedious and uninvolving, and carolina forgets that she's supposed to be an innocent who has never been with a woman, jumping head-first into porn positions without hesitation.
b. skow, the long-serving gonzo director, also directed this "movie" (i only confirmed it with this entry), which explains why the previous scenes were in 2000s-era porn locations rather than the horrible 80s-soap locations that girlfriends has traditionally filmed in, as well as why the color grading is closer to network television than public access. it's still dull as hell, only better than what i'm starting to recognize as dan o'connell's signature style by a thin margin.
performances: 20
cinematography: 18
editing: 9
script: 6
sjw points: 2
total score:
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