Page 65 - AVN December 2019

FRENCH KISSES
Reaching ‘Climax’ with Marc Dorcel
On a lovely spring day in Los Angeles, director Kay Brandt is a whirlwind amid a sea of
bodies. In addition to the ten performers on set, she’s got her sizable production crew plus
a team from the studio she’s working for today: none other than Marc Dorcel, the pioneering
French company that marks its fortieth anniversary this year. And this production, to be
titled Climax, will help celebrate that occasion.
The location is also worth celebrating. A sprawling, idiosyncratic house nestled in the
Brentwood hills, it offers a riot of irregular angles in each room. Even the pool isn’t the usual
rectangle. The decor is white and gray, with black accents, and blond wood floors. Light
streams in through huge picture windows as crew members set up the living room for the
ten-person orgy that will take place there in the evening. Outside on the tree-filled hillside,
hummingbirds dive-bomb the deck while scrub jays alert anyone who’s listening about the
presence of a nearby red-shouldered hawk.
Reigning AVN Female Performer of the Year Angela White is out on the patio, striking a
pose. She is all in black—bra, panties, hose, garter belt and shiny pumps—and her long,
dark hair is smooth, shiny and perfectly styled.
Brandt goes over the script for the movie, which is about an orgy club run by Angela
White’s character, Anais. “She’s the event coordinator who arranges very special orgy
events for curious couples. This is where it’s all going to go down. Right on that spot,” she
says, gesturing to the living room.
Brandt is thrilled to have been chosen by Dorcel to direct Climax. “Now we’ve opened up
this door to be able to make content for Dorcel America,” she says. “We’ve been chatting
for years about different things.” Then, at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo last January,
plans solidified. “For their fortieth anniversary, they wanted to have some special scenes.
This was the perfect opportunity to do something in America.”
Studio head Gregory Dorcel is also pleased about the collaboration. “At Dorcel we are
looking when we produce for high-end production, most of the time with storyline,” he says.
“We want our content to be acceptable to couples. To produce for couples doesn’t mean to
produce something soft. But it is to produce something without all the clichés that you can
find often in porn. So what we like with this director is that she has got a vision which is a
little bit different, which is quite sophisticated.”
≠ STORY: SHARAN STREET
≠ PHOTOGRAPHY: MARC DORCEL
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