The Villa

It never hurts to open your movie with a beautiful woman, sucking on another's tit, under textured lighting with a percussive rhythm and a few horns in the background - but Andrew Blake is about nothing if not stylistic eroticism. Let's face it - the women are only partly the stars of a Blake film. Nearly as important are the languid (and deceptively precise) camera moves, Raoul Valve's superb jazzy soundtrack, the framing of each image, the locale in which it's shot, the lighting ... the whole ten yards. On the other hand, when you get to the second scene, watching Kyla Cole gyrating her hips by a stone fence in the garden, in front of the mini-waterfall, seductively rubbing her tits and pussy, you'll simply want just to lay back, relax and let your mind go south. Another director recently observed that you don't sit in your easy chair alone and jack off to a Blake film; you sit on the couch with your significant other and watch the film until you're both so horny, you run into the bedroom and make hot, passionate love like rutting hyenas. Scene Four, with the two brunettes in a columned hallway, pleasuring each other up against a huge fresco, later on the floor of the same gallery with a dildo, gives the impression that this film is one long seduction ... and the impression wouldn't necessarily be wrong. What would be wrong, however, is to take too seriously the box cover's use of the phrase "your fetish delights" in describing what these incredibly beautiful women seductively reveal. Sure, there's a bit of leather in the attire, some vinyl, some fur, some nylon, some smoking, some shaving, a few smacks on the arse, and lighting that would make even Helmut Newton proud, but "fetish" is a word that's likely to put off more viewers than it attracts - and everyone who has the remotest erotic bone in his/her body really needs to bask in the sunshine of this picture. But, frankly, we're a bit tired of trying to describe in words this incredibly beautiful but visual artwork. Robert Heinlein once envisioned a form of art in the future that would consist entirely of a series of moods arranged in a logical and seemingly inevitable pattern. With The Villa, Andrew Blake comes as close as we've seen to the fulfilment of that prediction. Cast: Elsa Versus, Justine Joli, Kyla Cole, Tara Radovic, Others