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By
Giacomo Tramontagna
The Men I Wanted
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced and directed by Lucas Kazan. Videography by Leonardo Rossi. Edited by Egisto Mastroianni. Starring Jean Franko, Ethan Clarke, Roberto Giorgio,
Lucas Andrade, Glenn Santoro, Alexy Tyler, Samuel Dolce, Mark Federico, and Pietro.
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The real star of this production is videographer Leonardo Rossi, whose camerawork celebrates the Tuscan countryside while feasting on the scenic wonders of nine world-class
male specimens. The Men I Wanted sometimes strains toward upscale artiness (the soundtrack is awash in Donizetti, to kitschy effect), but director Lucas Kazan has seldom done better
work. At a lean 76 minutes, this disbursement of eye candy avoids the static qualities of some of Kazan's more labored efforts, such as
School for Lovers, last year's porno travesty of
Cosi fan tutte.
There's no story here, just a central situation. The action centers on a remote stone farmhouse overlooking green hills and golden fields of wheat. Steamy, dark-haired Samuel
Dolce appears before the opening credits to reminisce about the luscious men who have visited his family farm, and to participate in a masturbation montage that is this video's least
successful feature. You may wonder just what sort of family Dolce belongs to, since the farm appears to be an all-gay enclave.
In the first full-scale episode, Alexy Tyler, his gym-crafted body aswirl with tattoos, bottoms for hirsute Jean Franko. In the second, Ethan Clarke and Roberto Giorgio, convincing
as honeymooners, become locked in a passionate 69. In the third and arguably best scene, handsome waiter Glenn Santoro serves and then ravishes dark, ink-splotched Lucas Andrades in
the farmhouse kitchen. The last segment brings back Samuel Dolce for an interlude where he and shirtless hitchhiker Mark Federico fuck as if their lives depended on it. This Italian idyll
lacks Italians -- pseudo-Tuscan farmboy Samuel Dolce (a.k.a. Joseph Ther) is actually Czech, and others are from Hungary, Brazil, the US, and Venezuela -- but the polyglot cast is a potent mix.
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