Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, Full movie (1981)

70% (98 / 41)

Add to Favorites

Views: 65 167 Uploaded: 1 year ago

Description: Sharon, played by Swedish star Aunt Peg, is the dreamer. Her dream begins with a cock-tale party where she entertains more than a dozen of her friends in a sensual way. Her husband is a young and handsome stud named Andrew, who has a perpetual hard-on for her. You’ll love to see what happens when Sharon wakes up!
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Juliet Anderson, Jon Martin
Scene 2. Holly McCall, Susan Nero, Herschel Savage
Scene 3. Laura Leslie, Michael Morrison
Scene 4. Juliet Anderson
Scene 5. Lysa Thatcher, Aaron Stuart
Scene 6. Laura Leslie, Michael Morrison
Scene 7. Simona Wing, Sonya Summers, Blair Harris
Scene 8. Juliet Anderson, Dallas Lark
Scene 9. Sonya Summers, Blair Harris
Scene 10. Mai Lin, Herschel Savage
Scene 11. Lisa K. Loring, Michael Morrison
Scene 12. Lysa Thatcher, Aaron Stuart
Scene 13. Holly McCall, Holly Page
Scene 14. Phaedra Grant, Jon Martin
Scene 15. Phaedra Grant, Mai Lin, Herschel Savage
Scene 16. Holly Page, Blair Harris
Scene 17. Mai Lin, Herschel Savage
Scene 18. Juliet Anderson, Lysa Thatcher, Blair Harris
Scene 19. Laura Leslie, Michael Morrison
Scene 20. Lysa Thatcher, Aaron Stuart
Scene 21. Holly Page, Michael Morrison
Review:
Revisionism of porn history is well underway, and one of the casualties thus far seems to be Gerard Damiano. After his string of arguably the most successful and influential porn films of all time directed in the early 1970s, his later output has been cast by the wayside unfairly, while many hacks who were his contemporaries have been elevated to pantheon status.
BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS bears a 1980 copyright and is among GD's most pretentious films. It was shot in Frisco, giving it a different feel than his East Coast work, but still bears many of the master's trademarks, thanks to using his great d.p. Joao Fernandes (Harry Flecks).
Aunt Peg (aka Juliet Anderson) is excellent in the leading role as a posh lady, speaking in affected manner, who with confidante Aaron Stuart lords it over a coterie of shallow, vaguely jet-set (porno division) people reeking of decadence and boredom. Carefully built up atmosphere combined with cryptic characterizations (or lack of them) created for me an atmosphere on screen I had not seen since reading J.G. Ballard's wonderful but little-known short story collection "Vermillion Sands". Ballard isn't writing his usual science fiction here, but rather one of his post-modern visions of a used-up human race going through the motions of still being alive - oh so civilized.
Well, Kubrick for some reason never got into Ballard, filming Clarke and Burgess instead, so I give Damiano credit for making the equation between genteel decadence (what on screen is often associated with Colonial Brits, like those stationed in India before independence) and sex. That makes BEYOND closer to Radley Metzger's masterworks than GD's prior purple- prose porn.
Chief protagonist is Jon Martin, who has fallen under Juliet's sway and is subjected to frequently cryptic hints as to what's going on by her amanuensis Stuart. It is difficult to discuss the film at all without spoiling the surprise, but essentially the film's dream-like mood and detail hints at what reality is all about for this large cast of characters.
Best roles go to Lysa Thatcher, emerging as among the most interesting actresses of the Porno Chic era -cast here as Juliet's maid and as sexy as can be; Blair Harris as a typical chauvinist stud and Mai Lin dominating the screen in her usual uninhibited manner. For literary fans the key to unlocking Damiano's mystery (I like to think he knew the novel but chances are slim) is E.R. Eddison's brilliant fantasy novel A FISH DINNER IN MEMISON, well- read back in the '60s (not just by me!) when Ballantine Books cashed in on the success of LORD OF THE RINGS by bringing back into print scores of other adult fantasy classics.
Of the film's many imaginative sex tableaux one sequence has Damiano experimenting (he and his wife are the editors as usual) with fast cutting of blow jobs in an accelerating fashion leading to a parade of money shots that is just one more innovation in a career marked by them. Other than Warhol (still unsung for his virtually inventing the format and structures of modern porn with his '60s experiments) Damiano created most of what fans of the Golden Age take for granted in quality porn films. I guess Warhol is responsible for the low-end with his demonstration that technique doesn't matter and his emphasis upon static camera and improvisation/confrontation in presenting minimal story/dialog set-ups for sex.

Show full Description

Overview

Click on a screenshot below to rewind the video to that location. Click on "Overview" to show or hide this section.