Concupiscence (1998) User Reviews (2)

A hot, hot film with fantastic atmosphere!

[geoffreyedwards-1 · 10/10 · 14 April 2007]

This is one of my all time favorites... The film is actually a film within a film, even at several levels. Concupiscience opens with a scene with Fovea in a glider, and then a sex scene with the pilot... but the relevance of this scene to the rest is not all that clear. Where the film really picks up is when the narrator shows up in Budapest and is taken around the city by a stunning young woman guide, called Andrea in the film.

He is led into a hotel room where two hot girls await him, first giving him a girl-on-girl show and then taking the narrator on. We (almost) never see the narrator himself - the film is viewed through his eyes. Following this first scene within the Budapest context, we are witness to a succession of scenes strung together by an investigation into where the mysterious film crew of a porn film has disappeared to. We enter a sex bar in which the narrator gets it on with one of the dancers, then we watch a porn shoot take place, with four very young looking actors - the two teen girls are astonishing to watch. This scene is marred by the face that another porn film, supposedly shot by the porn director of the scene playing out in front of us, is edited in so that its scenes alternate with that of the actual shoot, a film sequence which in another film might be interesting but here detracts from the gorgeous porn shoot going on.

The film then moves to a mysterious group sex scene involving the missing film crew inside a bath house, a gorgeously filmed sequence in which one hears the sound echoing from the water, to a restaurant orgy scene with the film crew, and finally to a scene between the narrator and the young woman who has been his guide.

I loved the dreamlike quality of the film, the use of settings that are unusual in porn films, the use of young, obviously local talent, a feeling that mixes professional porn stars with amateurs, some very very hot scenes of all kinds,the feeling of Budapest as a city backdrop. A hot, hot film, marred by a few elements that don't work quite as well, but it's a film I watch again and again.

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[lamegabyte · 10/10 · 13 August 2017]

This movie is one of its kind and offers a very innovative and original experience as it's shot like a video game, that is to say like a 1st person shooter: you can only see the hands of the protagonist (and his thing) and it's like that all along the movie. From this technical area, the director goes where no Hollywood famous directors never went before and he must be praised for that!

Next, the action takes place in a foreign city (at least for me), Budapest and we go to a lot of very exotic places (nightclub and baths!) Anyway, you can feel the things are the same but look different and there again, the movie manages to catch what a travel is!

Up now, it could have been a excellent mainstream movie but it's an adult one: here, indeed, there is maybe some defects as the action is a bit tame and a lot of girls are not that sexy but at the end, the movie saves its neck because it picked up a really sexy guide! Andrea Tweeny is just the kind of my dream babe: no fake enhancements, a natural beauty, kind and smiling, not sophisticated and open! It's a pity she didn't do a career and that this movie would be her only big moment! However it's a unique experience to follow Andrea in this old and secret Budapest and she really explains the title Conscupiscence: terrestrial pleasure!