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Fresh
Rating: 3 Stars
Falcon Studios. Produced and directed by Matt Sterling and Marc Fredrics. Videography by Marc Fredrics. Edited by Matt Sterling. Music by Henry Richards. Starring Eric Andraas, Horst Patre, Colby Tavers, Petre Andraas, Danno Alecs, Serge Timar, Daniel Istvan, Ian Josef, Gorgy Trebec, Miklos Sebac, and Danno Barboli.<br>
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This amiable addition to Falcon's International Collection could have been called The Wayward Bus. Driven by a uniformed hunk (Serge Timar) with a lustful twinkle in his eye, a shiny red motor coach hauls passengers along a route that dips into suburbs and glides down narrow country roads before looping back to the city. The passengers are almost exclusively young gay men. In the opening sex scene, Eric Andraas and Horst Patre suck and fuck aboard the bus as it barrels along a back road with occasional cars and trucks whizzing by and Timar jerking off in the driver's seat. The scene could have been better paced, and might have benefited from some give-and-take between passengers and driver. But the sex is genuinely public, and the effect is startling.

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The next episode generates more heat. Gorgy Trebec, Ian Josef, and Colby Tavers, waiting at a rural bus stop, end up frolicking in nearby woods. (Tavers, who could be Leonardo DiCaprio's horned-up kid brother, is particularly memorable.) Later, as the red bus pauses on a city street, a man in a terrycloth bathrobe ogles one of the passengers from a second-floor balcony, catches his attention, and summons him in for sex. When the bus overheats, perhaps out of empathy for its passengers, it's brought to a garage where both vehicle and driver are serviced by grease monkey Danno Alecs. From a nearby vantage point, Daniel Istvan and Danno Barboli watch and get inspired.

Although Fresh isn't up to the level of Falcon International's early classics (Accidental Lovers, Sauna Paradiso), it still does credit to that tradition. It's a reminder that Falcon's early '90s forays into Eastern Europe broke new ground, made Bel Ami possible, and remain the best European work of any U.S.-based porn producer. (Kristen Bjorn's operation, though tied to a Florida address, is in an international class by itself.) Working in Europe with ace videographer Marc Frederics, co-director Matt Sterling has entered a promising new phase in a sterling career.