Jeffrey
Montclair (Dale T. Fuller) is a struggling director trying to complete his
latest skin flick, based on the astrological signs of the Zodiac. Pressured by his sleazy financier, “The
Godfather” (Jon Oppenheim), Jeffrey puts out a casting call to find nubile
performers to make his passion project a reality. Meanwhile, his leading lady Monica (Jennifer
Welles) takes a shine to a sexy young ingenue, Inga (Barbara Benner). When Inga winds up taking Monica’s coveted
role, she sets out to get revenge.
The
Sexualist is pretty much a mess. The
film-within-a-film scenes are kind of fun.
I especially liked the opening sequence about masturbation and how it
relates to the specific Zodiac signs. If
the movie was nothing more than a series of astrologically themed sex scenes,
it might’ve worked.
However,
the behind-the-scenes drama involving the exasperated director, temperamental
actresses, and actors who have trouble getting it up are a lot less
successful. The comedy shit is painfully
unfunny too (like the scene with the guy in a gorilla suit), and the constant narration,
which does a crummy job tying everything together, is often intrusive. The sex scenes fluctuate from hardcore to
softcore (most of the masturbation scenes include full penetration), which also
gets a bit frustrating.
The
Sexualist is of interest mainly to see sex goddess Jennifer Welles as the diva
leading lady who makes the director’s life a living Hell. She looks great naked, but unfortunately,
this is far from the best material she’s been given. The subplot with Welles and Benner is OK, I
guess. It’s just that it feels like it
came out of a completely different movie.
That’s
basically the problem. The Sexualist is
all over the place. There are three
narratives going on, and none of them mesh.
If only it picked a storyline and stuck with it. As it is, only the Zodiac sequences really work, and whenever the film cuts away from those scenes, it’s always a bad
sign.
AKA: The Sexualist: A Voyage to the World of Forbidden Love.
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