NSFW: Not Safe For Work (2014)

This is a film which I backed in my early kickstarter adventures.  In due time the digital download turned up, I grabbed it, and then it lay forgotten on my hard disk for the best part of a year.

Elenore makes her living as a camgirl; posting sensual and nude photos of herself online for paying subscribers.  She also provides occasional video updates about her life - which proves a useful tool for dropping some exposition into the narrative.

Said exposition involves Elenore's two lovers.  The first of these is Dee, a career woman who wants to take the next step with their relationship.  Dee and Elenore seem to have been together for some time.  Long enough at least that when Elenore talks to her viewers about Dee, she assumes they're familiar with her.

The second lover is Eugene; a married man with whom Elenore is having a series of casual sexual encounters, each of which explores a particular kind of fetish (female domination, costume play of various kinds, and so on).

Elenore and Eugene's sexual games dominate a large portion of the first half of the film.  Given the subject there's quite a lot of nudity, though most of the scenes are (deliberately, I think) kind of awkward and comical and not very erotic.  It's only as the two start of them start to share emotional as well as physical intimacy that the awkwardness diminishes.

While Elenore and Dee seem to remain stuck in a holding pattern, Elenore and Eugene begin to become closer, spending more and more time together (and notably, proportionately less and less time having sex).  Sooner or later the two of them will have to deal with the way their relationship is changing and what it means to the other people in their romantic lives.

I've given NSFW a 'not recommended' not because it is a badly made film.  It's technically proficient, decently acted, and is a good deal more thoughtful than its title and abundant nudity might suggest.  It's more a case that I think the potential audience would be small.  Still, if you think a mildly melancholic rumination on physical and emotional intimacy might be your kind of thing - and you're not the sort to be easily shocked, or to mind a lack of easy answers - then this might be for you.