Kama Sutra: The Secrets of the Art of Love
Back in the 1990s someone noticed a loophole in the UK censorship laws that allowed soft porn films to be sold through normal channels as long as they included some educational element. There followed a small flurry of films which featured a series of sex scenes, each followed by a talking head discussing what had just happened – these were the films for which the fast forward button was invented.
Kama Sutra: The Secrets of the Art of Love is very much in this mould. What we get this time around is a series of couples simulating sex in a variety of positions while a breathy woman provides a voice-over commentary.
Beautifully shot and sensually lit, and presented in both standard and 3D versions, this film is clearly aimed at couples.
Between them, the three – very attractive – couples in the film work their way through a total of fifty sexual positions, each with the obligatory voice over. But in a 75 minute film, that doesn’t add up to a great deal of time for each position.
It also became noticeable as the film wore on that, although fifty positions are featured, there are a lot less than fifty ways to film them. The commentaries also ran into a similar problem. Individually, they were all very well done but, as the film progresses, it becomes increasingly apparent that there is a limit to the number of things you can say about any given position.
All of this makes it very much a film to dip in and out of rather than one to watch straight through. But, if you have a reasonably open-minded partner, this is also a film that could well inspire a whole weekend of fun.
Monday 03 Sep 2007 | Paul Pritchard | Documentary, Erotic
