It's easy to watch the entire catalog of Britain's JoyBear Films, a minor label that releases only one or two videos per year in its Romance/Couples niche, all of them basically pantomime porn.
Whether they're worth watching is a matter of taste, but I generally enjoy them for their laid-back, unfussy approach to cinema. Problem for the general (porn) public is that the content is a bit too similar to those Yule Log burning ambient background videos one sees at Christmas time. Riveting entertainment this ain't.
"Lena" looked promising enough on paper, with one of Britain's top porn exports Ava Dalush in the title role and a quality supporting cast ranging from really big names like Sam Bentley, Paige Turnah and Ryan Ryder to an exceptional, unsung performer Lucia Love.
But the result as piloted by "Dee D" (in the BTS it looks like a gentleman not a lady running the show, and the clapperboard identifies the director as "Ed", perhaps a step closer to his real name) is bland, bland, bland. At least a couple of scenes have the actors reciting some dialog, but it is carefully suppressed by turning the sound down or off entirely, all the better to make way for voice-over artist Bella May to tell us what little there is of a story line concerning Lena.
She's a woman of the timeless fictional sort, coming of age and unsure what direction to take in life. Will she become the next prime minister? (Three years after this was released a much more matronly femme took that route to succeed Margaret Thatcher in our Brexit-mixed-up world.) Is she to fall in love and bond with some lucky gent? Or is she to bore us to death, ever so briefly in this 2-hour exercise in nullity?
Of course Door #3 is chosen. The five not-so-memorable vignettes can be summarized thusly: our heroine Lena studied feminist theory in college, not exactly giving her a leg up in the work force (sorry for any current or future puns & allusions here). She does manage to get the film off to a bang-up start by knocking off the requisite lesbian scene, here 69-ing with Lucia Love. For fans who would prefer LL going a bit further I recommend the classic fetish opus "Latex Desires" in which fetish artist extraordinaire Latex Lucy sticks not merely her fist but her forearm up Lucia with aplomb.
Our helpful narrator presents us with a role model for Lena, her friend Jazz, who humps her husband on the stairs at home. This is a model of domestic bliss, personified by local porn vet Demetri XXX and a rather obscure big-bosom actress named Ashley Downs. (I liked watching her and have only one other Brit Porn credit of hers (for Harmony Films) to watch as followup, from her briefest of brief career.)
It's party time, and we get to see Luke Hotrod at the piano (no music, he only plays in the BTS short subject), slinking off to hump Sam Bentley with a whole lot of smooching thrown in for the Couples fans out there.
Lena, through our humble narrator, complains about her boss, so we are privy to some prosaic home life of Paige Turnah as the bread winner, and coincidentally cast Kane Turner her house husband. Sex in the kitchen for the Turners is de rigeur.
Lena finally decides to stop pondering her fate and in the words of Nike, just do it. So she hooks up with Ryan Ryder who she met briefly at the party, deep throats him, and receives a wet belly shot for her efforts. Moral of the story: be more spontaneous.
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