Amnesia

Rebecca Lord's acting career back in the VHS-era 1990s is laudable, adding glamour and Euro sexiness to many a major feature video. Her later directing phase is loaded with style, and a most pleasant surprise in "Amnesia", quality storytelling beyond the sex.

One of the most distinctively pretty of the current crop of Euro starlets, Candee Licious is delightful as the put-upon heroine of the story. She's uppity and uppercrust, bossing around her chauffeur Antonio Ross, but when a near-miss auto accident leaves her unconscious in the back seat the brute takes sexual advantage of her when she wakes up suffering from amnesia.

Lord makes the most of this novel premise, which would play interestingly enough in a mainstream rom-com, but without the domination/submission and sexual abuse content that makes porn fun (if decidely un-p.c.).

Perhaps having a woman director did the trick for me, as it has clearly softened the typical male chauvinism of the genre. Sure, Antonio keeps manipulating Candee to satisfy his own desires (convincing her that he's her husband and that they are living a swinger couple's life style), but clearly she will eventually come to her senses and give him his comeuppance.

Along for the group sex ride are equally beautiful Continental blondes Blanche Bradburry and Christen Courtney, while lovelies Tiffany Doll (still convincingly playing a teen a decade after her chronological qualifications have lapsed) and Misha Cross pop up in extraneous sex scenes.

For some inexplicable reason "Amnesia" was released in America last year by two rival labels: Penthouse and Bizarre Video - I having viewed the Penthouse DVD version for this review.