Luxure: Initiations de Jeunes Libertines

The five vignettes of this domination/hotwifing exercise from Marc Dorcel play almost identically, with a flat, uninvolving mood, as if the prolific house director for the label Herve Bodilis was bored. As a loyal Dorcel viewer, I was mighty bored, too.

Very poor sequencing of the stand-alone set of scenes has the most engaging one presented first, making the four that follow seem like dull carbon copies. Manon Martin flashes her alluring smile throughout the opening scene as she services a stud at her hubby's behest, with spouse joining in for a threesome. The remaining four beauties, including top- lined Dorcel superstar Claire Castel, go through their XXX paces listlessly, almost under protest it would seem.

The notion of a lend-lease approach to marriage on the part of the husband, a concept run into the ground in recent years Stateside by filmmaker Jacky St. James, doesn't play well on the other side of the Atlantic either. Bodilis himself appears in a NonSex cameo role as blonde bombshell Chloe Lacourt's husband, sitting at a bar while she's assigned to go hump a stud in the establishment's lavatory. He supposedly gets some thrill out of this self-cuckoldry, though it doesn't come through credibly in Herve's scenario nor in his non-acting of the part. Adding insult, Chloe barely reveals at all her fabulous breasts, saving a glimpse of them for the video's "Making of" bonus segment, that runs a feature-length 45 minutes long.

The stunning Ava Courcelles (who combines the look of Anouk Aimee with more current Penelope Cruz) delivers the show's d.p., while star Castel ha a nothing segment in which, like many a Jacky St. heroine, she uses cell phone snapshots and video to record her hotwifing for her husband to enjoy later.

Finale has breast in show guest star Valentina Nappi paired with Mike Angelo for a "hair down there" exercise. Entire show is enervating.