Released | Apr 26th, 2022 |
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Running Time | 129 Min. |
Director | Uncredited |
Company | Joybear Pictures |
Distribution Company | Pulse Distribution |
DVD Extras | Behind the Scenes, Still Gallery(ies) |
Cast | Luke Hardy, Liz Rainbow, Marcus Quillan, Sahara Skye (aka Belle O'Hara), Yiming Curiosity, Viktoria Quinn, Loveday, Chris Cobalt |
Critical Rating | AAA 1/2 |
Genres | Drama, Marquee, Foreign |
In the dystopian world of this five-scene serial feature, a fatal antigen is spread by skin contact, so touching of any kind is strictly prohibited and agents called Eyes are charged with enforcing the ban. In a dark bar, Chris Cobalt and Yiming Curiosity meet cute under the watchful Eye of Viktoria Quinn and colleague Marcus Quillan ("We were friends. Perhaps, in the before times, we could have been ... more," she reflects wistfully) as pole dancer Loveday performs. After Cobalt and Curiosity head to a back room and violate the touch ban, the camera pans up to a biohazard NO TOUCHING sign graffitied to read TOUCH ME.
Eye Quinn follows Loveday to a cinema, where she watches movies from the before times, "when people could touch, kiss, make love..." when Luke Hardy walks past Loveday to an adjacent seat, separated by a NO TOUCHING sign. "Sex was in the air," Quinn observes, leaving her cell phone to record evidence of the forbidden tryst as she retreats, but in the post-pop afterglow, Loveday spots the cell phone and takes it. Quinn reflects that she is reluctant to bust the scofflaws, flashing back to the before times and her relationship with Belle O’Hara.
Lovelady tracks down Quinn and when Quillan comes to Quinn's flat, he wants to break some rules with them, but he ashamedly retreats because "he wanted to join us ... but he had forgotten how," so Quillan meets up with Liz Rainbow for a brush-up horizontal naked tutoring session. When he walks in on Quinn and Loveday kissing in the bar, he's conflicted between duty and desire.
The clever premise isn't completely fleshed out, but the atmospheric sex scenes are superlative. Performers are real-people attractive, adding a realistic touch, and are having fun. Good for Joybear fans and fans of foreign productions.