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List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 2007 DVD Release : 13 November, 2007 |
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| Here's a DVD that's been coming soon' for about three years. Thankfully, it's been well worth the wait because Seduction Cinema have put together a superb package. The main event is a remake of Nick Phillips' late 1960s "Chantal" and this 2-disc set has that original feature on its second DVD along with an interview with the director and an audio commentary with Phillips and 42nd Street Pete. There's also a short film called These Girls Are Fools'.
The main course, though, is Tony Marsiglia's stunning remake which features an utterly superb central performance from Misty Mundae as the innocent, wide-eyed titular character who dreams of becoming a movie star. However, she soon finds that far from being laced with tinsel, Hollywood is loaded with manipulative predators all too eager to lend a helping hand. In some ways, this is Marsiglia's most straightforward film in terms of storytelling. There's none of the confusing narrative that characterized his previous release, [[ASIN:B000GFRICC Sinful]], or the more dreamlike sequences in the excellent [[ASIN:B0002TT0KU Lust for Dracula (Director's Cut)]]. However, there are one or two moments of weirdness. For example, having been turned away from her first port of call, Chantal decides to lower her sights and enters the bowels of a decrepit hotel presided over by the creepy Pablo (Tony Marsiglia). On finding that she doesn't have enough money for a room even in this hell-hole, Pablo offers her a deal: he'll keep her suitcase and belongings with him, but he'll allow her to take two items with her. "Not the pink ones," he rasps excitedly like an obscene phone caller in imminent danger of a heart attack. There are fine performances from the supporting cast. Darian Caine as an aggressive lesbian photographer gives perhaps her best performance to date with Marsiglia favorite, Andrea Davis, as her co-defiler. They subject the witless Chantal to their forceful attentions in a powerful scene that is harrowing to watch. Julian Wells also turns in a fine performance. Here, she plays an actress wannabe who's already been put through the wringer and is now reduced to turning tricks on the street. Also present on the DVD are a behind the scenes featurette and an interesting audio commentary from Marsiglia and producer, Michael Raso. However, the icing on the cake is a fascinating, separate audio commentary from Tony Marsiglia and Misty Mundae. Aside from the business of Chantal', Misty speaks about her decision to stop making softcore films. She admits with refreshing honesty that since making [[ASIN:B000F3UACU Masters of Horror: Lucky McKee - Sick Girl]], offers of acting work that she's been willing to undertake have not been numerous. At one point, Marsiglia asks Misty about how she and her fellow actresses prepare for sex scenes and in a delightfully catty aside she mentions an actress whose name has been partially removed from the soundtrack: Misty: Working with [this actress], she'd be like oh no, I don't wanna do it that way. I have to be atop, I can't be abottom, and let's do the scissor thing because then we look really good. And make sure that you hold under my boob to cover my scar.' Marsiglia: What did the director say? Misty: Oh, pssh! The director of that movie? Not much! Marsiglia: I don't think I've seen this one. Misty: Good! I think Misty is talking about [[ASIN:B000063K07 The Erotic Mirror]] which, in my opinion, is not a bad piece of softcore entertainment. And the "scissor thing" does look good. Chantal', for me is a four star film, but the extra features give this package a five star rating. Misty Mundae fans should consider it a must-have. |
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