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Jean-Daniel Cadinot is a French pornographer extraordinaire.
Cadinot explains his embrace of filmmaking as an expression of gay
activism: The still photo became too limiting. I quickly reached its
boundaries and I had a desire for action and movement,
he remarks. I
wanted to go further, to tell our collective stories as gay men. Video
enabled me to do just that.
His films are plot driven, they feature young men in their late teens or early twenties, the protagonists tend to be youthful and non-muscular. Cadinot considers the leads he chooses to be more sexually versatile than actors in American pornography who can be often limited to top or bottom roles.
The performers kiss each other with real passion, with real lust. It is
emotions that make my particular style. My scenarios are based on the
actors' tastes.
Cadinot has made 67 films. Cadinot has received a Venus Award as Best Director at the International Erotic Film Awards in Berlin. More recently, he won an AVN award (adult Oscars in Los Angeles) for his entire body of work and another Venus for C'est La Vie (2001). He has completed his autobiography, Premier, but has yet to find an American publisher for it.
Tuppy wrote:
"Nomades by Jean Daniel Cadinot (France) is an artistic, very hot gay porn featuring gorgeous men enjoying intimate, sensual and athletic sex in enticing locations and situations, with safer sex throughout.
It's difficult to imagine a hetero film being half this beautiful or sexually amazing. The film is seductively paced with great local music, and good slurpy kissing sounds. The plot is believable, there is suspense, power struggles being resolved, laughter and an acceptance of gayness. The sets are sexy when glamourous as well as when sordid. We enjoy echoey whispers of lust, close-ups of the entering of bum-holes, good spit shots (rather than applying commercial lubricants) sexual urgency on clean white bed linen, clean soles of feet, no socks, groovy hair styles, fabulous erections and blowjobs, slow hand-jobs, performers sinking into ecstasy, condoms being put on eagerly, beautiful fingerwork and some unusual angles of incredible action, like the head between his legs with fingers up bum, and fag in mouth. The only negatives for me are some head-pushing during blow jobs, everyone is young and luscious, never old, fat or disabled, fingers up bums gets repetitive, there is no spanking, bondage or fisting, or anything extreme, and it goes on for ever. But who's complaining?"
