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Love and Lust
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by Lucas Kazan and Ettore Tosi. Written and directed by Lucas Kazan. Videography by Leonardo Rossi. Edited by Egisto Mastroianni. Music by Andrea Rosselli. Starring Giorgio Salieri, Roberto Giorgio, Jean Franko, Matthias Vannelli, Ricky Martinez, Lucas Andrades, Karel Rok, Otto Voko, and Julian Vincenzo.
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Unlucky in love, Giorgio Salieri swears off men and moves to a turreted Tuscan hill town where the males he's hellbent on avoiding have nut-brown skin and pearly teeth, do lots of body work, seldom wear shirts, and lose their pants whenever possible.

As Salieri arrives at his rural retreat like a wingless outcast angel, his sweet sad face and tightly molded butt produce an unsought frisson in some of the local menfolk. Roberto Giorgio, who believes in love, follows the stranger at a respectful distance, enthralled. Jean Franko, who believes in getting laid, leers from his window.

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Franko never does connect with Salieri, but he behaves like a supple-tongued Mediterranean ass-bandit in two tangential three-ways that seem to fulfill all his needs. Giorgio, meanwhile, waits in the street outside Salieri's house until the newcomer's resistance to his soulful presence crumbles and he's invited inside to be fucked. Love and Lust arguably peaks, however, during the second of four principal sex scenes, a fusion of two hard-hatted workmen (Ricky Martinez and Karel Rok) Salieri hires to renovate his new home.

This Lucas Kazan video bears the stamp of Kristen Bjorn's Sarava Productions, and seems to reach toward a higher standard than products the Italian-based Kazan releases on his own. The stasis that plagues this director's work intrudes here and there, but the visuals are strong and the sex is sometimes superb. Explosive moments include Martinez's no-hands orgasm as Rok caresses his belly, and a burst of sudden, passionate tongue-kissing between Franko and Julian Vincenzo.

DVD extras include a behind-the-scenes documentary containing some intriguing outtake snippets, and interviews conducted mostly in unsubtitled Spanish, German, and Italian. When muscular, bisexual Hungarian Julian Vincenzo attempts English, his decipherable statements include "Jean Franko is very, very good boy," and "These tattoo, I sexy man."