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El Rancho
Rating: 4 Stars
Produced, written, and directed by Kristen Bjorn. Videography by Kristen Bjorn and Strongboli. Edited by D. el Largo. Music by Matt Locke. Starring Carlos Montenegro, David Vega, Jean Franko, Tommy Alvarez, Murat Cipriere, Carlos DiPone, Kristhin X, Rocky Oliveira, Ricardo Safado, Peter Paver, Alex Ferrari, Fabian Andrade, Mike Gonda, Tibor Cernan, Pedro Andreas, Daniel Marvin, Peter Berg, Tony Duke, Jorge Ballantinos, Matthias Vannelli, Jordi Casal, and Alex Brinsky.
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Somewhere in the rugged reaches of Kristen Bjorn country, Carlos Montenegro raises horses on a sun-kissed ranch. A sad-eyed hunk whose upscale frame is topped off with an expensively tousled head of jet-black hair, Montenegro is as much a walking luxury item as the thoroughbreds he breeds. (If he didn't exist, Emporio Armani would have had to invent him.) Alas, his outward perfection masks inner strife. When his firm-bodied wife makes advances in bed, Montenegro gives his brow an anguished backhanded slap. In voiceover, he admits she's interrupting his obsessive fantasies of "men from the country who surround me all strong and virile." In a narrative full of deadpan comic mischief and blistering sex, those dreams soon segue into reality.

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ith the involvement of 21 mouth-watering, libido-quickening international models, El Rancho encompasses five finely tuned erotic set pieces. Much of the elaborately detailed action begins with discrete pairs of men who finally merge; the sex is expertly configured and beautifully shot. Montenegro is a key participant in three extended episodes. In the opening reverie, he fucks the tar out of David Vega on the porch of his estate, then assists at an orgy in which bearded, satyrish Jean Franko gets joyfully gang-banged. In the fourth sequence, Montenegro frolics with five of his friends while his wife shops; the fifth unfolds in an exclusive club where he and three fellow rancheros yank straining pingas out of their swanky dress trousers, then proceed in obvious directions.

Two digressive sections shift focus to the proletariat. Aroused by the sight of Montenegro's mujer sensuously brushing her cranberry-hued locks on a terrace, a pair of ranch hands lunge for each other, then are joined by a third who becomes the centerpiece of a fuck-train. Meanwhile, at a guerrilla training camp in the hills, four rebels rehearse a repertoire of subversive gestures that include thigh-holster fetishism and a vertical 69.

Although Kristen Bjorn's forte is group sex, some of the strongest vignettes in El Rancho are one-on-one. An exquisite encounter between off-screen partners Daniel Marvin and Pedro Andreas includes ecstatic, reciprocal condomless fucking. This and other stunning vignettes are available only in the mail-order version, which tops three hours and completely earns its length.