This is an adventure story about mountain climbing.

Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world’s second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain.

When the film was made, Julia Nickson was credited as Julia Nickson-Soul because she was married to Starsky or Hutch or both. Their daughter, China Soul, is a musician.

The video streams the director’s commentary for some reason that I didn’t anticipate. There is nothing memorable about the original dialogue, but you can get all available audio tracks if you download it.

This was an outstanding show: beautiful writing, beautiful photography, beautiful nudity. It’s centered around a feminine perspective, and targets a female audience, so it’s not the sort of show I would normally seek out, but it does what it does so well that I loved it in spite of the long rhapsodies about food, in spite of the sentimental musings, in spite of the contrived crises, even in spite of myself. In that respect, I would liken it to Amelie, the great film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, in the sense that if I just read the plot summary, I’d never watch it, but it’s just so good that it won me over, and I looked forward to it each week.

And it didn’t hurt that there were beautiful naked women everywhere.

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As I suggested above, there were nude scenes in many previous episodes

German biopic. Original title: Dreißig Jahre an der Peitsche

The toxic relationship with her parents triggers Tina’s escape from home. Her affair with an SM aficionado introduces Tina to a radically new life as dominatrix for a special clientele while battling her own gambling addiction. She becomes known as the Berlin dominatrix, Lady MacLaine

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It’s an NYU student film produced by the Tisch School of the Arts

Well, I learned a new vocab word today:

Limerence is an involuntary state of intense, obsessive romantic infatuation characterized by intrusive thoughts, emotional dependence, and a desperate craving for reciprocation from a “limerent object”. It involves idealizing the person, ignoring flaws, and experiencing extreme mood swings based on their actions. Unlike love, it is often a one-sided, addictive, and short-lived state.

As for the film:

On a laid-back summer day, a young woman spends some time with her casual partner. Irmak Akgur directs “Limerence,” a slice-of-life portrait that flows in uninhibited vignettes. Minimally plotted but tonally sharp, Akgur’s film captures a couple of free spirits in their element – spending the day preening, dancing in the sun, making love. Built with convincing intimacy and naturalism, it culminates in a moment of carnal revelation.

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Czech romantic drama. Original title: Nikdo me nemá rád

Sára works as an assistant at the army headquarters in Prague. She is an attractive woman surrounded by young men, but without a partner. When she meets the gallant and charming Martin, she finally experiences the love of her life. When Sára wants to take their relationship to a deeper and more physical level, Martin unexpectedly cuts her off. Refusing to accept his reluctance to confide in her, Sára wants to know what is stopping him from being with her. She discovers that Martin has a secret. She promises not to tell anyone, but does so in good faith. And then he learns how society deals with those who don’t fit into the right boxes.

(SPOILER: Martin is a hermaphrodite.)

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Eight couture looks made from Lever Couture’s waste pile prove that glamour can come from the most unexpected places.

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Horror film. USA.

A clan of watermen capture a crew of sport fishermen who must then fight for their lives.

If I have seen this, I can’t remember it. It is rated 3.2 at IMDb, and stars Jason Mewes, so I didn’t bother to check the IMDb section that lists Oscar nominations. If that name sounds familiar but you can’t quite place him, Jason Mewes is Jay of “Jay and Silent Bob.”

The film sounds terrible, but the nudity is not bad at all, albeit performed by relatively unknown actresses.

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This is a new drama series from Argentina. It’s a Prime original, known as Animal Love in English.

Kaia is breaking into the trap music scene when she meets Nico, a young man recently discharged from a mental health clinic. Although they come from completely different worlds, primal desire takes over, and fate forces them to confront a secret that puts them in danger. Their love unleashes a wave of violence that traps them in a labyrinth marked by passion and tragedy.

I was excited when I saw that one of the stars was Tatu. It’s been a long time since I heard the little fella say “Dee plane!” Then I found out that the REAL Tatu is dead, and this one is a chick. Well, at least she took off her top.

Kidding aside, I couldn’t get into it at all, and ended up watching it in fast-forward. IMDb offers no help – there are only ten votes. (The score is a very weak 3.8, but a score from ten votes is meaningless.)

The nudity in the series was inconsistent. There were two promising scenes in episodes two and three. After that, there was nothing worthwhile. It’s not possible to argue that there were no opportunities for nudity, because there were plenty. There was even a non-nude rape scene in episode seven!

There was no nudity at all from the star, Valentina Zenere, although she did appear in a bikini.

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