Polish film. Original title: Te cholerne peonie

Rita is twenty-four years old and has never had an orgasm. All she remembers from her first sexual experience is disappointment and a kitschy painting of peonies hanging on the wall before an old sofa creaking beneath her.

Adrianna Malecka nudography

AKA: Like Water for Chocolate

Star-crossed lovers Tita and Pedro’s romance is thwarted by her family’s traditions, forcing Tita to navigate magic and flavors in the kitchen as she fights for love and embraces her destined path.

This is a highly touted new HBO series adapted by from the same 1989 novel as the acclaimed 1992 film. Both the novel and the film are esteemed as beautifully crafted examples of the literary genre of magical realism, which is highly popular in Latin American fiction.

From experience I can tell you something about the film: If you are looking for a date movie for Netflix and Chill, that would be a great choice. Although I am not a fan of magical realism (to say the least), I’ve watched Like Water For Chocolate several times because women love it. Think of it as a chess move- the “Dirty Dancing Gambit” – in which you sacrifice 100 minutes of your time in order to set up your endgame.

I haven’t seen the series yet, but the reviewers praise it as a lavish and faithful interpretation with first-class production values.

As far as nudity goes, I hope they can do better than what you see below, but my expectations are low. HBO has not been delivering much nudity in its recent efforts.

Previously:

Irene Azuela may have done an unsimulated sex scene in Las Oscuras Primaveras (2014)

Irene Azuela topless in episode two of Windows

There’s no nudity, but she certainly knows how to move the big ol’ booty.

Russian series. Original title: СССР

Spring 1981. The Olympics are over, but the Olympic symbols have not yet been erased from the walls. Calm, peaceful, sleepy time – Brezhnev’s stagnation. Four friends are returning from the army, together they went through fire and water, emergency situations, saved each other’s lives. Jokingly, they call themselves ‘SSSR’ by the first letters of their names – Sergey, Semyon, Samvel and Roma. The story of friendship and growing up develops against the backdrop of a rapidly changing country, but their “SSSR”, unlike the Soviet Union, has hope. The Union of Friends will be preserved, although in ten years it will be tested for strength more than once.

There’s very little nudity in this series, especially in comparison to other recent Russian efforts. There’s some very brief side-boob in episode 12.

Johnny’s remarks:

Again there’s not a lot of nudity in the second part of the 2007 update but there is some good nudity in a sex trafficking drama, The Jammed (see Emma Lung below), and a shitty American co-production, Lords of the Underworld.

Jill Wagner also was seen from the rear in a shower scene. Zoe Saldana had two nude scenes (one sex, one bath), but it is obvious that the scenes were composed and edited to avoid any meaningful exposure.

Film clips here. (You’ll probably have to download them. GoFile doesn’t seem to stream 4K clips very well.)