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Male Tales
Rating: 4 Stars
Produced, photographed, and directed by Kristen Bjorn. Music by François Girard. Starring Jason Kingsley, David Bathory, Lucius Socrates, Victor Cowboy, Shaun Wilcox, David Salazar, Max Gandra, Miguel Martino, Sergei Jordonov, Daniel Santos, Julio Vidal, Rocky de Oliveira, Romario Souza, Matthieu Costa, Alberto de Souza, Marcelo Lars, Juan Jimenez, Chris Laruso, and Pietro Rosselli.
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French-Latin muscle stud Matthieu Costa recalls how one day, walking along a country road, he spotted two young bikers reveling in the shrubbery. Later, Costa continues, as he paused to enjoy a ruminative piss beneath a tree, an inquisitive South American chap (Romario Souza) showed up in a blue ATV, watched him approvingly, and initiated happy, pantless acrobatics. Then, as Costa and his new friend took a postcoital drive, the bikers reappeared and invited them home for a fiery foursome.

Shag-haired, white South African Jason Kingsley reminisces about a Latin American holiday with David Bathory, his deluxe boyfriend. "It was like a honeymoon for us," he says-- a honeymoon complicated and intensified by a hustler (Lucius Socrates) they met on the beach. Crafty-eyed Russian Sergei Jordonov confesses a fondness for "wet bodies in Lycra swimsuits," and spins a fantasy involving himself and four Brazilians at a hotel swimming pool bar. Smoldering Venezuelan David Salazar remembers an encounter he and his workout partner once had with a exhibitionistic gymnast. Finally, Marcelo Lars, a young Brazilian, describes the time he and his boyfriend dallied at an upscale spa with a fellow guest, a masseur, and an abundance of body oil.

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In Male Tales, which echoes his 1996 World of Men, director/videographer Kristen Bjorn returns to peak virtuosity. Stilted moments where models are caught hitting their marks are minimal here; each half-hour playlet spills over with sexual abandon. The entire 20-man cast seems benignly stoned on lust, but the sex has a tantalizing, slightly dangerous edge. There's at least one remarkable oral cumshot: during the spooge-heavy third-act orgy, sweetly uninhibited David Santos takes Sergei Jordonov's juicy orgasm full in the face. Every episode involves multiple partners; when the configuration includes a committed couple, Bjorn's liberationist vision gets assertive. During Kingsley and Bathory's ecstatic honeymoon romp with dark, luscious Lucius Socrates, you may suspect you're watching the most beautifully crafted three-man sexual interaction ever filmed.