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Review: Adorable Lola (1981)




Tags: Gérard Kikoïnevintage pornogolden ageMarilyn JessMika BarthelÉlodie DelagePiotr Stanislas


As prostitute Claire (the radiant Marilyn Jess) awaits her next client in an elegant New York hotel room, she remembers what brought her there. Unable to enjoy sexual relations of any kind since being raped by her father, she meets the mysterious Florence (the exotic Mika Barthel), "Lola" to her friends (hence the title "Adorable Lola" on the DVD release), who fled the country a decade earlier due to a similar situation and an incestuous attraction to her deceased father. The two women meet, and Lola becomes Claire's sexual mentor, initiating her in the ways of sex and introducing her to the men and women who were part of her life.
Francis Mishkind's Alpha France was a paradigm of porn production, both in terms of quantity and quality, during the French equivalent of the Golden Age of American porn. With a huge chain of theaters showing it, it was a huge success until the golden age collapsed in the mid-1980s. But even then, VHS and later DVD sales kept most of the best titles available to the general public, reinforcing the old "Alpha France" logo as a sign of superior quality. Among the interim directors (Jean-Claude Roy AKA Patrick Aubin, Claude Bernard-Aubert AKA Burd Tranbaree, Francis Leroi AKA Jim Clack, and Claude Mulot AKA Frédéric Lansac), the cheeky Gérard Kikoïne always stood out.