PARIS—Liselle Bailey directs 2021 AVN Female Foreign Performer of the Year Cléa Gaultier in new Dorcel feature Standing Still, available now on DVD in the U.S. through Pulse Distribution.
Describes a provided synopsis, "Alice (Gaultier) is set free after six long years behind bars. Having paid her debt to society, the prospect of getting a new lease on life has provided her with a Zen-like outlook, peace of mind, and no need for vengeance, despite having lost her job, her friends, nearly all contact with the outside world and even her grip on reality for a time while in jail. Yet she quickly learns that while her life came to a standstill, her lovers Mike (Max Deeds) and Kate (Anissa Kate) moved on. Will Alice track them down with the hope of reliving, however briefly, the fun they had together years before? Or will she decide that from now on, she has all the cards in hand to live her life again by moving forward?"
Gaultier appears in three of the movie's scenes, including back-to-back pairins with Marc Kaye and David Perry, and a climactic three-way with Deeds and Kate. Also in the cast are Alessandra Jane, Lola Bellucci, Marcella Bravo and Luke Hardy.
"The trope explored by Standing Still runs deep in film history, with a lot of classics and underrated gems featuring women as law-breaking, unexpected antiheroes who, for their own reasons, reform themselves and turn away from a life of crime," said Daniel Metcalf, Dorcel's U.S. publicist. "In nearly all cases, these films, whether mainstream or adult, explore or implement an aspect of life that is sadly too often a reality for anybody who isn't a man: relative obscurity. As Sandra Bullock put it in Ocean's 8, 'A him gets noticed, a her gets ignored. And for once, we'd like to be ignored.' Within that forced obscurity, many of these women are able to operate relatively unbothered. It's a power fantasy that the women in the audience—the viewers that Liselle Bailey strives to connect with—can share."
Of Gaultier's performance in the lead, Metcalf added, "This is the second movie of 2022 to feature Cléa in the kind of moral grey area portrayed in the Oceans films, with the first being Herve Bodilis' Revenge. Her performance here is a wonderful mystery, one that unwraps itself slowly, twisting and turning as her character contends with the curve balls life throws her way. She delivers as Alice, a woman determined to make her own rules."
For more information, visit Dorcel.com.
For domestic sales information, contact Josh St. John at Pulse Distribution: 818-435-1610 / [email protected]
