luna star and gia derza in “you need to get laid”

scene title: you need to get laid
performers: luna star, gia derza
site: sweetheart video (mile high)
production credits: ricky greenwood (dir.), sean aitch (ed.) 
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l: gia derza, r: luna star

the third entry in sweetheart's lesbian analingus #13 has nothing to do with the first two, but vignettes are more common than ongoing stories in these kinds of releases anyway. it's also less focused on analingus: sure, there's plenty of it, but gia and luna aren't constantly referencing it.

in fact they don't communicate a lot during sex. luna vocalizes plenty, both in english and spanish, but gia, who only started last year (though it was a hell of a year), still seems to feel more comfortable as a gonzo performer than playing a character.

the setup is wholly unconvincing, from luna as a telenovela star to gia as her assistant to the supposed booking mix-up where they have to share a bed. most of which i only got from the scene description, not the scene itself: it feels like the script tried to be too clever without ever actually establishing anything about the scenario, and also without being actually clever.

luna's cuban accent, while charming, doesn't help in terms of clarity, and gia, though cute as a button, is still a tentative actor at best. once the sex started, though, that all fell away, because they are both terrific porn performers, and wholly believable in their desire for one another and responsive enjoyment. i didn't recognize luna at first, because i'm so used to seeing her as a blonde, and i think i had her mixed up with lela star before i heard her speak: but that expressiveness is unmistakable.

once more, the limitations of ricky greenwood's virtually monochromatic palette become more and more apparent the more i'm exposed to it: sure, it looks super classy, dripping with burnished golden lights, but it's also shadowy and indistinct, and much of the action here was drowned in muddy darkness. there's got to be a middle ground between standard porn overlighting and this moody, twilit beige. when you can see anything, it still looks great, and the time-passes cutaway is so much more elegant than you almost ever see in porn, but variety is maybe my highest aesthetic priority, and too much visual sameness gets stultifying.

performances: 23
cinematography: 22
editing: 18
script: 9
sjw points: 2

total score: 

74

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