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Bud Lee's Appassionata accomplishes a very rare achievement for an adult film: It's a romance.  While some might argue that this is a dubious trait in a porn movie, frankly, it's nice to see someone trying something different.  Certainly, this tape will be a hard sell to the raincoat crowd, but just as certainly, this movie was never made with them in mind.

Asian Carrera plays a woman who is the reincarnation of a classical pianist trained at the elbow of Mozart himself.  As the modern-day Asia tries to find work, she encounters an ongoing perpetual stumbling block in the form of her beauty.  Most of her prospective bosses want her to "pay" to play.  At night, while riding around with her newfound friend Alex Sanders, she dreams of her past life, and her never-consummated love affair with Mozart.  Technically excellent, and filled with lush period costumes, Appassionata showcases Carrera's magnificent piano playing (and yes, that is really her).

Adam & Even knows their customers well.  With an interesting plot that actually motivates the fucking, truly great performances in all the main roles (pre-noms to Asia Carrera, Alex Sanders and Mike Horner), and sex scenes that sizzle rather sear, this film as "Couples Market Goldmine" written all over it.



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