Cabaret Desire

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Film ends in a laughably bad performance of an original song titled "Sperm", with poor lip-sync of the band (Cava Cabaret) and its jazz singer, an insipid attempt at double entendres.

Working out of Barcelona, Erika Lust is typical of filmmakers interested in creating erotica while avoiding the clichés of pornography. Four Poets with four fantasies of intimate sexual desires, enticing you to discover a lust you never knew existed. Four beautiful storytellers weave erotic and sensual tales at a place of intrigue and passion known as the "Poetry Brothel" in this sumptuous film from director Erika Lust. who we see in fetish gear clad in latex head to toe, making her look like a stereotypical BDSM movie masochist, but instead dominating a famous author who she binds and gags and then humps.

By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. Her pretentious project "Cabaret Desire" fails on all counts: zero for eroticism, zero for explicitness, zero for casting, zero for story and zero for conduct. The Madame of the Brothel introduces each client to a lady, who then proceeds to take them deep into a world of evocative and sensual storytelling. 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.

An informative short film on the DVD titled "The Poetry Brothel" by Patrick Catuz interviews practitioners at Barcelona and NYC "brothels" emulating Storyville or Parisian atmosphere but where folks go off into a corner or secluded nook to listen to one-on-one poetry readings and presumably have sex. Enter the Barcelona 'Poetry Brothel': a magical, bohemian place where people go after dark to lose themselves in erotic tales and poetry. In a magical, unconventional place, the "Poetry Brothel" people met to read erotic stories to night and have them to read to them.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 four vignettes are introduced by a male or female poet who sidles up to a client or couple and receives a poker chip as payment in advance (like a hooker -the chip bought expensively upon entering the club being a ritual associated with the real-life poetry brothels).One of the four vignettes played just like a lame late-night pay- cable (Skinemax or Showtime) boredom special. Read all In a magical, unconventional place, the "Poetry Brothel" people met to read erotic stories to night and have them to read to them. Four different stories are implemented in short film sequences In a magical, unconventional place, the "Poetry Brothel" people met to read erotic stories to night and have them to read to them.