Dorcel, the major international player in pleasure for all, is pleased to announce the release of director Liselle Bailey’s Standing Still, a feature for couples starring Cléa Gaultier, Alessandra Jane, Anissa Kate, and Lola Bellucci. Showcasing Gaultier in three multi-partner commercial scenes, this big-budget two hour and twenty-five minute release is now available domestically on DVD from Pulse Distribution.
As Bailey’s film begins, Alice (Gaultier) is set free after six long years behind bars. Having paid her debt to society, the prospect of getting a new lease on life has provided her with a Zen-like outlook, peace of mind, and no need for vengeance, despite having lost her job, her friends, nearly all contact with the outside world and even her grip on reality for a time while in jail. Yet she quickly learns that while her life came to a standstill, her lovers Mike (Max Deeds) and Kate (Anissa Kate) moved on. Will Alice track them down with the hope of reliving, however briefly, the fun they had together years before? Or will she decide that from now on, she has all the cards in hand to live her life again by moving forward?
Sensual couplings and triads soon follow, all shot by Bailey to emphasize passion and longing. The unabashedly romantic encounters showcase Gaultier’s Gallic beauty and charisma in back-to-back pairings with Marc Kaye and David Perry, as well as a twenty-five minute tryst with Deeds and Kate that ultimately heals their relationship. Alessandra Jane, Lola Bellucci, Marcello Bravo, and Luke Hardy complete the cast.
“The trope explored by Standing Still runs deep in film history, with a lot of classics and underrated gems featuring women as law-breaking, unexpected antiheroes who, for their own reasons, reform themselves and turn away from a life of crime,” said Daniel Metcalf, Dorcel’s U.S. Publicist. “In nearly all cases, these films, whether mainstream or adult, explore or implement an aspect of life that is sadly too often a reality for anybody who isn’t a man: relative obscurity. As Sandra Bullock put it in Ocean’s 8, ‘a him gets noticed, a her gets ignored. And for once, we’d like to be ignored.’ Within that forced obscurity, many of these women are able to operate relatively unbothered. It’s a power fantasy that the women in the audience – the viewers that Liselle Bailey strives to connect with – can share.”
Of Gaultier’s commanding presence in the lead, he observed, “This is the second movie of 2022 to feature Cléa in the kind kind of moral grey area portrayed in the Oceans films, with the first being Herve Bodilis’ Revenge. Her performance here is a wonderful mystery, one that unwraps itself slowly, twisting and turning as her character contends with the curve balls life throws her way. She delivers as Alice, a woman determined to make her own rules.”
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