Word of Mouth (1999)

hyped garbage

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Excellent soft core material for those who enjoy erotica in two levels: 1) quality 2) spiceCatalina Larranaga looks extremely sexy, her acting is very fine, and her sex scenes (the things that we care about) are extremely well done.I never thought I'd like a woman with short hair that much. She's the star of the movie as she has plenty of sex scenes while the rest of the female cast has only minimal screen time.The erotic level is high and explicit. We have man-woman sex, a threesome involving two hot when (Calatin and an Asian girl) and a man, and Catalina doing solo.This is one of the best late 90's erotic films.

No spoilers in first three paragraphs. I for one would love to read a review such as this to get a better idea of whether this bit of soft core is really all that special in a way that appeals to me, or not.Catalina Larranaga does indeed have the attractions ascribed to her by the two previous reviewers. I for one don't think she's stunningly beautiful, though she is very attractive in an adult stylishly very cute, flirty sort of way. What's more, she adds up to utterly stunning in her own way. Very intelligent, wonderfully coquettish, always in control but in a playful, beguiling, "having fun together" sort of way. She acts quite French in the sense of that most attractive subset of French coquettes. She knows how to make men's fantasies happen in ways that leave her on top and both sides happy. Does she always want to be a little on top, though not meanly, or is that how she knows it's best to do her highly skilled work? Will she ever release?The erotic works on several different levels in this film. And it's VERY erotic. First it's just wonderfully teasing. It does indeed help get any self pleasuring job done. It is great couples erotica as well. Her body is all natural, and the sex isn't freakish in any way, nor highly athletic. We can all do what she does physically. But it's really hot, not only because she has a fine body, but more because she is a great mental sexual performer. Most of what's especially hot is what she's putting in our heads.Beyond that though it's also a fairly subtle, but also right there in front of us, exploration of the role of control, light but real control and sexual power skillfully exercised, in many sexual fantasies. Here as in so much American erotica, particularly of the soft porn variety, it's the woman who's really in control, while she sometimes makes the man feel he is. But here it is done really engagingly. It's not so bad to have this woman in control. It looks pretty wonderful.Part of how she manages to have such a female fantasy sort of call girl lifestyle, is by being extremely selective in her client base. Every one of her clients whom we see (except one) is someone who looks and acts like an intelligent stud. She is at such a rarefied level of her profession that she can manage to be so choosy and still charge top dollar and get apparently all the business she wants. Well, in real life she probably couldn't demand absolute top dollar and be so tightly filtering, but she probably could get fairly close to it. Part of how she manages to be so selective is by getting a really good crowd trying to get in. She does that by limiting her clientèle to "word of mouth" referrals. Start with a smart high earning stud or two (perhaps with freebies or big discounts first time or two or upon referrals that both meet her standards and become new regulars. All this makes sense - pretty smart way to go, any would be call girls out there. ;-) The movie doesn't actually say all this, but there are hints.But perhaps the most interesting thing about the film is the exploration of the budding infatuation the starting out documentary filmmaker is feeling for her, and which she first claims to be feeling for him – but we're never entirely sure if it's not another act, or partial act. Probably partly true and partly acting, like the rest of how she's arranged her sex life. Like her feelings for clients she kisses warmly and has orgasms with and whose company she enjoys – but never allows herself to feel any clingy attachment. She never allows herself to be swept away.She once was swept away in a marriage to a former client, and it ended in divorce we learn, when he couldn't handle her profession after loving the world traveling high life the two shared apparently as she classily hooked, before their child was born, and then taken from her. We can feel through her playful seduction of the filmmaker (a seduction it appears she can take or leave but would rather take) that she's so special that maybe one could live with her having done this work, especially when she says that this time she'd quit if someone like him helped her leave the life for something else like legit movies that was attractive. But then we wonder if she really would leave it, or anyway having multiple liaisons. She evidently loves the playful power trip and also the sexual variety, if not having no one to truly love or be loved by in her life.And yet we've been induced to feel great attraction for this woman, who is not mean or thoughtlessly hurtful, and we even wonder if we could deal with her work or its less frequent analog without pay continuing to some extent, after we'd fallen mutually in love and moved in together. He evidently decides he couldn't, and that he can't be at all sure she'd really stop. But how much is he still fantasizing about her? His film asks him and he says he isn't, but it's hard to believe. Perhaps WE'LL go on fantasizing about her? No doubt he made the right decision, especially for him, but would everybody? Especially with someone like her who is not going to be submissive to him, though PERHAPS not really dominant either? Just able to get it all while we probably couldn't, really. Not so much anyway, as a beautiful woman always easily can, if she wants to and her mate will let her.It's all pretty intriguing erotic stuff. And VASTLY more intriguing than 90% of the rest of the porn, soft and hard, that's out there.

Very sexual movie, and the plot is interesting. Catalina Larranaga is the sexiest woman this side of hard core. Also the fact that the movie is one of very few "Sundance" selections makes it all the more interesting.

Nicely done erotica that will leave fans of the genre in a non-complaining state. Much of the credit goes to the presence of the beguiling Catalina Larranaga, a Mediterranean (Latin?) beauty who has graced a few of these films lately and who has brought to them a higher standard of natural beauty.