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Bone Island
Rating: 4 Stars
Produced, photographed, and directed by Kristen Bjorn. Music by Matt Locke. Starring Ivan Andros, Juan Jimenez, Miguel Leon, Diego Pastores, Guillermo Pastores, Arpad Miklos, Craig Decker, Dirk Amsterdam, Max Veneziano, Khieu Samphan, Sam Sun, Cesar Moreno, Sergei Jordanov, Joao Pauzao, Matthieu Costa, Scott Duran, Butch Blackmoore, Pietro Rosselli, Antton Harri, Filippo Romano, Edwin Frank, and Fernando Neron.
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In Kristen Bjorn's Man Watcher (1998), Ferenc Botos sneaked about watching men have sex. He finally got caught and drawn into an orgy, and-- once he'd made the leap to sexual participation-- found true love. In this new erotic gem, Bjorn recycles that scenario with variations. On Bone Island, a fictional Spanish Caribbean paradise, dark-haired, plush-lipped Ivan Andros spies on handsome, grieving Juan Jimenez's weekly visits to his lover's grave. A dedicated peeping Tom, Andros one-ups Botos by using a camera. His voyeurism doesn't just reflect the viewer's situation, it mirrors and fetishizes the director's role.

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Andros secretly tapes a series of sexual connections, starting with one that occurs when neighboring householder Miguel Leon discovers two brothers, Diego and Guillermo Pastores, sharing a joint on his porch. In the blistering aftermath, the Pastores boys, who do look fraternal enough to make incest convincing, get passionately involved with each other and with Leon, who fiercely fucks them in tandem. Later, Andros monitors a couple's entanglement with two cops; he then moves on to a five-way romp inside a walled garden. After this, he follows Jimenez into a club called Leather Master (which actually exists in Key West), where an eight-man orgy is just warming up. He discreetly tapes the proceedings until he's spotted and engulfed in the action. Turning the tables, the leathermen use the voyeur's camera to shoot footage of him performing mass fellatio and getting facially festooned with spooge. Eventually, when Andros has sex with Jimenez, the video camera plays a role in their celebratory encounter.

All five scenes are superbly staged, performed, and shot. Bone Island doesn't hit as many peaks as Man Watcher or Isle of Men, however; Bjorn has been obsessively sticking to the same Floridian-Caribbean-Mexican wonderland lately, and is starting to repeat himself. Maybe he's due for a change. The steam-driven performances of Asian models Sam Sun and Khieu Samphan in this feature's middle episode suggest that heading East might be a profitable course.