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Lana, Desires of Submission

Lana, Desires of Submission

Released Sep 05th, 2018
Running Time 121 Min.
Director Hervé Bodilis
Company Dorcel
Distribution Company Wicked Pictures
DVD Extras Alternate Languages, Behind the Scenes, Subtitles, Trailer(s)
Cast Philippe Soine, Claire Castel, Ricky Mancini, Lucy Heart, Math, Rico Simmons, Alberto Blanco, Lana Rhoades, Clea Gaultier
Non-Sex Roles Others
Critical Rating AAAA
Genre Foreign Feature

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Synopsis

The beautiful and talented American journalist Lana is going to launch herself into an investigation about submission. She will meet Jean Lefort, a writer who is specialized in the subject. Taking him at first sight as a narcissistic manipulator, Lana will soon end her interview. Not being the kind of person to give up so easily, Lana will make her mea culpa and agree to leave her camera to share a weekend of initiation with Jean at Claire's, one of his loyal readers. On the way, she will even force her nature into an exhibitionist game to convince her host of her intentions.

Reviews

This starts with a tight close-up of Lana Rhoades' face as she strips under harsh blue light. The camera retreats to show that she's out in the woods, and the light is coming from a car's headlights. A man standing next to the car says, "I want you to give me a handjob," and she walks up to him, nude, in the woods, and replies, "No, I can't do that."

Rhoades is a TV presenter, and her interview with author/dom Rico Simmons takes an interesting turn when Simmons commands Lucy Heart to lie across his lap and starts playing with the plug in her ass. While Heart moans and gasps, Simmons sizes her up, but she's not buying: "I’m not going to fall for your S&M games." Simmons cuts the interview short—leaving Rhoades on the hook because she flew a crew to Paris to talk to this guy.

Rhoades calls him to apologize and Simmons invites her to a weekend in the country. We get a look at life at Simmons' country house when Clea Gaultier stands, alone, dressed in black, as others dine. When Simmons asks, Gaultier says she hasn't bathed in three days, per his instructions. "I feel dirty." The funk turns Phillipe Soine on, though, and he walks over to take her as Simmons observes: "I think you've found your dom." While being driven to Simmons' place, Rhoades gets a call from him: "The driver will stop. Do what he says." This leads into the scene that opened the production, but with more detail: When she refuses the handjob, he finishes himself off, with her standing in front of him, nude—instead of running away.

The next morning, Rhoades' training begins. She chats with Claire Castel, establishing Simmons' rules (one of which is no knickers, ever) and when Simmons comes back, he tells Rhoades to doff her knickers, and then has Castel strip her and re-dress her for the night's activities. And seeing as Rhoades isn't on a par with Castel, she should crawl on all fours: "You can learn to walk later." That night, Rhoades' training continues: She gets fucked by a machine, but she says, quietly, breathily, that she wants real cock. Alberto Blanco and Ricky Mancini accommodate her with a d.p., while Simmons busies himself with Heart.

When Rhoades leaves the country house, she thanks Simmons—"I learned a lot"—and Simmons offers to find her a dom in L.A. if she'd like. But Simmons has one last trick up his sleeve: He calls Rhoades on the road and tells her once more, "The driver is going to stop. Do what he says." This time, she does. Fadeout implies more to come as Rhoades appears on the cover of Simmons' new book (titled Lana la Sourmise) and he asks a woman in the publishing office, "May I ask you a personal question? Are you wearing knickers?" and she replies, "Normally I do, but today..."

Luminous cinematography and 11 sex scenes of various degrees of involvement—Simmons ordering Gaultier to satisfy every man in the house adds several—give full value. Nominated for Best Foreign Feature/Anthology Movie a the 2019 AVN Awards.



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