With a deftness that would be dazzling on its own if it weren’t overshadowed by the panties-moistening sexiness on screen, Lust juggles casting both male and female actors in an equally desirable light, a feat that American pornographers and even mainstream filmmakers are generally incapable of accomplishing. Not only are the men in her films usually as well-rounded in character as they are in their jeans, they’re shown to be objects of not just lust, but full-fledged desire: in a cat-burglary scene that could easily have become a woman-in-latex ogle-fest, Lust instead decides to undress and expose a skinny older man who is physically unimpressive while leaving the curvaceous actress entirely sheathed in a catsuit—except for her crotch. And even with her face in a mask and her body concealed, the degree to which she wants to bone the scrawny old naked dude is undeniable and carries the scene from creepy territory into absolutely fappable land. It’s like magic: desire can transform people. Tramontana, Mary Katharine (14 January 2022). " 'There's Not Just One Type of Porn': Erika Lust's Alternative Vision". The News York Times . Retrieved 16 January 2022. Good For Her Feminist Porn Award Winners". Good For Her. Archived from the original on 4 December 2011 . Retrieved 30 November 2011. Lust held two sold-out screenings of the XConfessions Theatrical Cut at Kino Babylon in Berlin in February 2016, [35] [20] and went on to win the Best Narrative Short CineKink Award for short film An Appointment with My Master. [36] Criticism [ edit ] Arsenic and Old Lace". Με το ταλέντο του Cary Grant στην τρελή κωμωδία, με τις ξεκαρδιστικές ερμηνείες των Raymond Massey και Peter Lorre, με δύο αξιολάτρευτες ηλικιωμένες κυρίες που έχουν ένα πολύ σκοτεινό μυστικό, συν μισή ντουζίνα άλλους εκκεντρικούς χαρακτήρες, όλοι εμπλεκόμενοι σε μια περίπλοκη και απρόβλεπτη πλοκή, αυτό είναι ένα κωμικό αριστούργημα. Ο σκηνοθέτης Frank Capra κρατά τα πάντα σε κίνηση και προσθέτει τη δική του πινελιά, διατηρώντας ένα σκοτεινό υλικό εντελώς ανάλαφρο.

Now on a crusade to shake up the pornography industry for good, Lust is in the process of gathering a global community of female adult filmmakers who are more concerned with cinematic value than gratuitous sex scenes—and who are interested in one simple idea: films driven by a female character. "These women want to make films where the woman's pleasure is important; they want to show diversity in casting, and they want to work for an ethical production process." It's heterosexual, middle-aged white men who have these fantasies with boobs and ass. You know the ones, they love their cars and their drinks." This, says Barcelona-based director Erika Lust, is who is behind the majority of today's mainstream porn. "They cast the same kind of very young women with very slim bodies and large breasts. They might have different hair colors, but more or less it's the same kind of women, over and over again." Worst vignette is the finale, which departs somewhat from the previous structure in that the blonde poet merely starts the tale and then the two protagonists in the pantomime have their "voices" presented in clashing views of events, basically a lame reunion a year after a torrid but fleeting affair, combining sentimentality and cynicism. a b c "2020 XBIZ Europa Awards Winners Announced". XBIZ. 22 October 2020 . Retrieved 1 December 2021. FPA 2008". Good For Her. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011 . Retrieved 10 September 2011.But what really killed off my nascent interest in this feature was Erika's connection with the cult of amateurism. Along with Max Hardcore's introduction of gonzo into porn, the predilection for watching amateurs rather than pro actors is the most detrimental change in both Adult Entertainment and even mainstream TV (reality-TV) in recent decades. Erika uses untalented performers, as well as those poets whose way with words escapes me (most of the gibberish passed off as poetry here sounds more like the dubbing script for turning a Spanish or Italian movie into a junker for American audiences than original writing). Result: who wants to look at or listen to this set of losers? As in her short films, Lust is all about the tease, but I found her approach to Adult XXX tease to be annoying, not stimulating. The payoff is explicit sex, but shot largely from soft-core angles so that the viewer is jerked around rather than promoting any jerking off. Sex scenes are relatively brief by modern standards and shot with many hokey camera placements and non- stop editing, both of which are techniques long rejected by porn fans in favor of the current more realistic, unedited half-hour of continuous sex approach. One of the four vignettes played just like a lame late-night pay- cable (Skinemax or Showtime) boredom special. Erika, for obvious p.c. reasons, de-emphasizes or eliminates the cum shot and flunks out on portraying any real semblance of human connection beyond mechanical sex - a failing of the pantomime format. A new wave of female filmmakers has set out to transform chauvinistic mainstream porn into stylish cinematic masterpieces that revolve around one simple idea: the pleasure of women.

Liberman, Rachael (3 July 2015). " 'It's a really great tool': feminist pornography and the promotion of sexual subjectivity". Porn Studies. 2 (2–3): 174–191. doi: 10.1080/23268743.2015.1051913. ISSN 2326-8743 . Retrieved 2 December 2021. Shooting Sex: How to Make an Outstanding Sex Movie with Your Partner (ebook also available in Polish) [45] Watercutter, Angela. "Erika Lust: The Porn Director on a Mission to Get More Women Behind the Camera". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028 . Retrieved 30 November 2021. Sanz, Álvaro Martín (20 July 2018). "Belleza e irrealidad en la nueva pornografía feminista: la imagen pornográfica de Erika Lust". Fotocinema. Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía. 17 (17): 343–365. doi: 10.24310/Fotocinema.2018.v0i17.5117. ISSN 2172-0150. S2CID 240382508 . Retrieved 2 December 2021. a b c d Virginie Sélavy (6 February 2016). "XConfessions: interview with Erika Lust". Electric Sheep Magazine . Retrieved 23 September 2020.

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