LOS ANGELES — Erika Lust and Lust Cinema have released “The Affairs of Lidia,” written and directed by Bruce LaBruce.
“The Affairs of Lidia” is LaBruce's first Lust Cinema project and stars Skye Blue in the title role, alongside Vanna Bardot, Drew Dixon, Sean Ford, Markus Kage and actor Pascale Drevillon. The feature was produced by Joe Balass.
After Lidia (Blue), a fashion model, discovers her husband Michelangelo (Kage), a boxer, is having an affair with Sandro (Dixon), a fashion photographer, she plots her revenge by bedding Sandro and emotionally seducing Sandro's fashion designer boyfriend Piero (Ford) while subtly manipulating her best friend and mistress, Marthe (Bardot), into having sex with Sandro as well.
“When Lidia finally manages to invite them all to her loft for a dinner party, along with her friend Xenia (Drevillon), all the knots will come to a hot, steamy head,” said a rep.
When Erika Lust approached LaBruce to make a feature length film, “he jumped at the chance,” the rep explained.
The XBIZ award-winning director had previously made three 30-minute scenes for Lust’s XConfessions banner, including “Refugee's Welcome,” “Scotch Egg” and “Valentine, Pierre & Catalina.”
This time, the rep added, “he took the opportunity to try something a little more ambitious. LaBruce had always wanted to make a 'fashion movie', so he wrote a porn script set against the backdrop (while making some lighthearted satire) of the fashion world.”
The studio called the script “a gentle pastiche of fashion, light comedy and erotic bedroom farce.”
“I really like to represent female sexuality on camera — even though I'm gay,” LaBruce stated. “‘The Affairs of Lidia' is partially inspired by the Hollywood film from the late 1960s 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' by Paul Mazursky, which at the time was a very controversial film because the four main characters, who are played by mainstream Hollywood actors, end up in bed together in a kind of polyamorous situation.”
LaBruce added that his parents “were totally scandalized about the movie when it came out.”
“I think they even referred to it as ‘pornography,’” he noted, "even though there's no explicit sex in it."
Lust enthused about LaBruce's "fascinating ability to surprise me every time."
"I am mesmerized by his daring cinematic style, original storylines and irony," the studio head added. "He already brought intense passion to our XConfessions catalogue, and I am glad we finally have his signature on one more groundbreaking Lust Cinema original feature."
"This film is just fabulous — perfect for the lovers of fashion, cinema and sex," Lust concluded.
For more about “The Affairs of Lidia,” visit LustCinema.com.